The Human Element in Science: Douglas Axe on The Eric Metaxas Show

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host Eric Metaxas interviews 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. Axe shares how he lost his research position in Cambridge during a season of political controversy over Darwinian evolution in the U.K. Axe's research at Cambridge led him to cast doubt on the prevailing ideas about protein evolution, showing that proteins are actually more fragile and less flexible than many claim. In their discussion of his book Undeniable, Axe explains that science is a human enterprise: "Science is not the dispassionate, purely rational, perfect discipline that some people still seem to think it is," says Axe. "The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise." This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.
0:12.2	Today's episode is adaptive. intelligent design and evolution.
0:13.0	Today's episode is adapted from the Eric Mataxus show and features Eric Mataxus talking
0:19.1	with molecular biologist Douglas Axe about his book undeniable.
0:24.4	For more from this radio program, visit Mataxus Talk.com.
0:29.2	That's Mataxas, M-E-T-A-X-A-S-E A S, the word talk.com.
0:37.0	This is the Erkma Texas show folks.
0:39.0	I'm here at my microphone in the mountains, way up on a crag, and I get to interview very, very interesting people.
0:48.0	I guess I don't do it just for myself, but sometimes I feel very selfish because I get to talk to very very
0:54.1	interesting people about very interesting topics no matter who's
0:56.6	listening I hope you're listening and sharing these things with your friends today
1:00.4	I get to talk to a brilliant scientist named Douglas Axe A-X-E.
1:07.0	He's a molecular biologist. He's a director of something called the Biologic Institute.
1:13.0	He got his PhD at Caltech.
1:16.0	Big deal.
1:17.0	He has held postdoctoral and research scientist positions
1:20.9	at the University of Cambridge.
1:23.3	Again, who hasn't?
1:24.6	What's the big deal?
1:25.7	The Cambridge Medical Research Council Center
1:28.2	and various other important places.
1:30.7	My goodness, he really has done so much that I have to make fun of it just
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