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

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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.

Published by HarperOne in 2016.

With 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, Science and Culture Today
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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