Douglas Axe: We Have an Eye For Detecting Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On this classic episode of ID the Future, host Eric Metaxas continues his conversation with biologist and professor Dr. Douglas Axe. The subject is Axe’s book Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life is Designed and his account of how he lost his position at a Cambridge research lab because of the implications of his research findings. Axe discusses the polarized atmosphere in science today, driven by an unreasonable commitment to materialism. Axe also talks about the reliability of our built-in design intuition and the implications of living in a designed universe. This is Part 2 of a two-episode interview.

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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.
0:24.3	For more from this radio program, visit Metaxistococococic.com.
0:29.1	That's Metaxus, M-E-T-A-X-A-S, the word talk.com.
0:36.8	This is the Eric Metaxis show, folks. I'm here at my microphone in the mountains,
0:41.2	way up on a crag. Today, I get to talk to a brilliant scientist named Douglas Axe, A-X-E.
0:51.0	Doug Axe, welcome the program. Thank you for having me.
0:57.8	Listen, you do a lot, but you wrote a book.
0:59.8	We talked about it at some point last year.
1:01.5	It's called Undeniable.
1:03.9	Well, you were telling us this story.
1:05.5	This was in the late 90s, I guess, right?
1:09.7	And it was a hard moment for you because here you're thinking,, look, I'm doing real science and I am showing something.
1:13.7	Now, I think what's interesting to is that the implications of what you are saying lead us to think that maybe there's a designer, but there's certainly no proof or anything.
1:24.5	You're just doing science and there's some evidence.
1:26.9	But the level of
1:28.7	uncomfortableness in the academy around this issue of design is so tremendous that even somebody
1:37.1	likes Sir Allen first on just giving the green light for you to do a project, which, you know,
1:43.0	it's not some sexy project like everybody in
1:45.1	America is going to understand or everybody in Europe is going to understand the implications.
1:49.8	It's very scientific science.
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