Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture recently celebrated our 20th anniversary, but in an important sense the work of the intelligent design community has barely begun. In a video conversation discussing his research on protein origins, Douglas Axe comments on the stages of that work.

There has been, first of all, the need for a critique of Darwinism to justify the way forward and the acceptance of the design alternative. The relevant debate is ongoing. What comes after is a new biological paradigm and the doors — yet unknown — that will allow to be opened.

The most basic questions haven’t really been addressed in the scientific community: What is life? What is a genome? Until now, biology has been deformed by the requirement that all answers be framed in materialist terms. Says Dr. Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, “We only begin to do biology when we embrace a design view of biology.”

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