Douglas Axe on the Human Element in Science

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future selected out of our vault, host Eric Metaxas begins a conversation with biologist and professor Dr. Douglas Axe on The Eric Metaxas show. Axe is the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University, the founding Director of Biologic Institute, the founding Editor of BIO-Complexity, and the author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life is Designed. In Part 1, Dr. Axe shares how he lost his research position in Cambridge during a season of political controversy over Darwinian evolution in the UK. He also shares what he learned from his experiments in protein evolution that cast doubt on the neo-Darwinian explanation for life. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.
0:13.2	Today's episode is adapted from the Eric Metaxus show and features Eric Metaxus talking with
0:19.3	molecular biologist Douglas Axe about his book Undeniable.
0:24.2	For more from this radio program, visit Metaxistocococop.com.
0:29.1	That's Metaxus, M-E-T-A-X-A-S, the word talk.com.
0:37.1	This is the Eric Metaxis show, folks. I'm here at my microphone in the mountains,
0:41.4	way up on a crag. And I get to interview very, very interesting people. I guess I don't do it
0:49.7	just for myself, but sometimes I feel very selfish because I get to talk to very, very interesting
0:54.5	people about very interesting topics, no matter who's listening. I hope you're listening
0:58.1	and sharing these things with your friends. Today, I get to talk to a brilliant scientist named
1:04.4	Douglas Axe. He's a molecular biologist. He's a director of something called the Biologic Institute.
1:13.0	He got his Ph.D. at Caltech, big deal.
1:16.9	He has held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the University of Cambridge.
1:23.2	Again, well, who hasn't?
1:24.6	What's the big deal?
1:25.7	The Cambridge Medical Research Council Center
1:27.6	and various other important places. My goodness, he really has done so much that I have to make
1:34.3	fun of it just to feel better about myself. Doug Axe, welcome the program. Thank you for
1:39.3	having me. Listen, you do a lot, but you wrote a book. We talked about it at some point last year.
1:45.9	It's called Undeniable. And I only got the chance to actually read it recently. And when I read it, I said, I've got to have you back on the program because it is so, well, important, beautiful.
2:00.5	Describe to my listeners, because you're with the Discovery Institute, right?
2:04.5	Are you the director of the Biologic Institute there, or is that something else?
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