Doug Axe and his colleagues Ann Gauger and Mariclair Reeves tested evolution in the lab at the most fundamental possible level — effecting a minor transition in function between similar protein folds. They found that you can’t get there from here by “any evolutionarily plausible means.” In a brief video conversation, Dr. Axe, author of Undeniable, discusses responses to this research from critics of intelligent design in the science world.

What I take away from this is that it if these critics are right, then evolution, for practical purposes, cannot really be tested in the lab. As Axe explains, an “A to B” transition for enzymes should be “easy,” accomplished “readily” and “all the time,” if evolutionary theory is correct. However, that ease and readiness evidently can’t be demonstrated, only asserted.

Taken on faith, in other words. The storytelling falls to pieces as soon as you try to assay its plausibility. And they say we’re “anti-science”?

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