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== Behe's Criticism of the Naturalistic Science of Francis Crick ==

== Behe's Criticism of the Naturalistic Science of Francis Crick ==

In 1992, the science journal ''Scientific American'' published an interview  which explored Sir [[Francis Crick]]'s belief in the hypothesis [[Directed Pampspermia|Directed Panspermia]] as a proposed hypthesis for the [[origin of life]] on [[earth]].<ref>http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/spongen/spongen.htm Reprint of an [[Creation Research Quarterly]] September 2001 article ''The Spontaneous Generation Hypothesis'' by David P. Woetzel</ref> [[United States|American]] [[Biochemistry|biochemist]] and [[Intelligent design|intelligent design]] advocate [[Michael Behe]] wrote regarding the interview the following:  

In 1992, the science journal ''[[Scientific American]]'' published an interview  which explored Sir [[Francis Crick]]'s belief in the hypothesis [[Directed Pampspermia|Directed Panspermia]] as a proposed hypthesis for the [[origin of life]] on [[earth]].<ref>http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/spongen/spongen.htm Reprint of an [[Creation Research Quarterly]] September 2001 article ''The Spontaneous Generation Hypothesis'' by David P. Woetzel</ref> [[United States|American]]  

 

Behe wrote regarding the Scientific American interview the following:  

{{cquote|The primary reason Crick subscribes to this unorthodox view is that he judges the undirected origin of life to be a virtually insurmountable obstacle, but he wants a naturalistic explanation. For our present purposes, the interesting part of Crick’s idea is the role of the [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]], whom he has speculated sent space bacteria to earth.<ref>http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/spongen/spongen.htm Reprint of an [[Creation Research Quarterly]] September 2001 article ''The Spontaneous Generation Hypothesis'' by David P. Woetzel</ref>}}

{{cquote|The primary reason Crick subscribes to this unorthodox view is that he judges the undirected origin of life to be a virtually insurmountable obstacle, but he wants a naturalistic explanation. For our present purposes, the interesting part of Crick’s idea is the role of the [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]], whom he has speculated sent space bacteria to earth.<ref>http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/spongen/spongen.htm Reprint of an [[Creation Research Quarterly]] September 2001 article ''The Spontaneous Generation Hypothesis'' by David P. Woetzel</ref>}}