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It Came from the Lab — On the Origin of Doug Axe’s Evolution Doubts

This is fascinating and important. The myth about evolution skeptics is that their doubts emerge either from ignorance or from a failure to reconcile science with their religious beliefs, in which case the religious beliefs win. But the myth runs up against reality.

undeniable-cover.pngWith molecular biologist Douglas Axe, it was precisely from his lab work at Cambridge University, back in the 1990s, that the failure of Darwinian theory started to become clear. Why? It was the experimental evidence that evolution can’t do what it’s advertised to do.

He and his colleagues were trying to put Darwinian processes to work in designing new enzymes. It should have worked — since evolutionary thinking asserts that these exquisite designs in nature are exclusively the product of unguided shuffling and selection. But as he describes in another video conversation, above, Dr. Axe found otherwise.

His new book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, describes in much greater detail the research that turned Doug Axe into one of the leading theorists of intelligent design.

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David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Evolution News
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and the editor of Evolution News & Science Today, the daily voice of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, reporting on intelligent design, evolution, and the intersection of science and culture. Klinghoffer is also the author of six books, a former senior editor and literary editor at National Review magazine, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Commentary, and other publications. Born in Santa Monica, California, he graduated from Brown University in 1987 with an A.B. magna cum laude in comparative literature and religious studies. David lives near Seattle, Washington, with his wife and children.

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