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Dr. Axe’s new book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, will turn on a light bulb for many readers. When, though, was his own “Aha!” moment?

He describes it above. It came early on in his Caltech graduate studies:

I suddenly saw this connection between what I had studied as an engineer and biology — specifically, how things are controlled at the molecular level in gene expression. I saw this elegant regulatory mechanism described in a lecture and I thought “Wow! This is engineering at a molecular scale. That’s really when a light bulb went off for me.”

Undeniable is out this week. Early responses are very encouraging. This is just in from World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky:

A brilliant book — In Undeniable , Douglas Axe Liberates Readers from the Tyranny of Evolution https://t.co/C4JWUasuKh via @sharethis

— Marvin Olasky (@MarvinOlasky) July 13, 2016

This is the first in a series of “Conversations with Douglas Axe.” Stay tuned here for more.

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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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