Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the “design intuition” — the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can only be accomplished by someone who has that knowledge. According to Axe, for the ingenious task of inventing life, this knower can only be God.
Starting with the hallowed halls of academic science, Axe dismantles the widespread belief that Darwin’s theory of evolution is indisputably true, showing instead that a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning. He then explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid. Lastly, he uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people to defend their design intuition, giving them the confidence and courage to explain why it has to be true and the vision to imagine what biology will become when people stand up for this truth.
Armed with that confidence, readers will affirm what once seemed obvious to all of us — that living creatures, from single-celled cyanobacteria to orca whales and human beings, are brilliantly conceived, utterly beyond the reach of accident.
Our intuition was right all along.
Endorsements
Roses, dogs, birds. From childhood everyone directly grasps that life is designed – until they’re talked out of it by a culture saturated with materialism. This excellent book clearly and concisely explains why your first understanding was exactly right. Using the latest science on the molecules of life, molecular biologist Douglas Axe shows why you don’t have to be an expert to trust your firm knowledge of the wonderful design of life.
Michael J. Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box
Douglas Axe’s Undeniable is bold, insightful and world-changing. It’s also a joy to read. I recommend it highly!
Phillip E. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Law at U. C. Berkeley and author of Darwin on Trial
Great scientists are as much artists as scientists. Enchanted by the beauty of the world, they see through ideologies to facts. In this engaging book, with facts and humility and humor and reason, Axe uses ‘common science’ to consider the biggest mystery: To what or to whom do we owe our existence? I greatly enjoyed it.
Dean Koontz,New York Times bestselling author
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Probably the most engaging book I have read in the past 10 years, because of Dr. Axe’s clear explanations and profound insights. It is technical enough in the rare places where it needs to be, but it quickly becomes obvious that mere technicality could never deliver the significance one finds here. This is an important book, perhaps the best one in existence, for anyone who takes origins questions seriously, whatever their perspective.
Charles Garner, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Baylor University
In Undeniable, Dr. Axe has carefully crafted a case that strongly favors our human intuition that life was designed. As a protein chemist, he gives numerous examples and reasons why unguided evolution (even of a cell’s protein molecules) is improbable in the extreme. This book’s power to convince surpasses that of anything else I have ever read (on origins science) during my 65 years as an engineer, biophysicist, and physiologist.
Mark C. Biedebach, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach
Undeniable is a marvelous book, both engaging and convincing — a true masterpiece.
Marcos Eberlin, Professor of Chemistry, University of Campinas, member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Life begs for an explanation. Written from point of view of a molecular biologist Undeniable makes a compelling case based on current research and human reasoning that living organisms were designed by an intelligent agent, i.e. God. Axe makes a decisive blow at the foundations of the materialistic explanations of the origin and diversity of life’s forms that have dominated biology for the past 200 years. He demonstrates an informed grasp of the current scientific and philosophical information which he communicates in an interesting style that can be understood by most laymen. Undeniable will change the way you think about the living world.
Donald Ewert, PhD, Director of Research at the Hough Ear Institute and Former Wistar Institute Research Scientist
Douglas Axe is one of the very few experimental scientists who has used his skills to test the validity of evolutionary mechanisms as a source of inventions. Here, he concludes that we can trust our common [universal] design intuition; it is supported by science, whereas evolutionary stories are anti-science.
Matti Leisola, D.Sc. Professor Emeritus of Bioprocess Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
Many say we must accept that life is ultimately due to a grand cosmic accident, that evolution is an unguided purposeless process and that we must deny our experience. Axe describes why the design we see in nature fits with scientific observation as well as with our ‘undeniable’ experience.
Russell W. Carlson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
That life is designed has long been an uncontroversial idea, but starting about a century ago, to be “real” scientists, biologists now had to think like physicists: reductionist, materialist and mechanist. In Undeniable, Douglas Axe performs a remarkable act of intellectual jiu-jitsu, finding evidence of design in the uttermost molecular details of life and evolution, those very details that were supposed to banish antiquated notions of design from our thinking. No matter what side of the design debate you happen to be on, Douglas Axe’s thoughtful book Undeniable is worth reading, engaging and debating.
J Scott Turner, Professor of Biology, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, New York
So often we read secondary accounts of the intelligence that lurks behind the wonders of life. In Undeniable we are privy to a first-hand account of the evidence for intelligence, and also the painful professional cost of swimming against the flow of an accepted, but unproven, dogma. A must-read.
Gerald Schroeder, author of The Science of God and God According to God
Rosa Endowed Chair of Molecular Biology at Biola University, Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
Douglas Axe is the Rosa Endowed Chair 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. After completing his PhD at Caltech, he held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre. His research, which examines the functional and structural constraints on the evolution of proteins and protein systems, has been featured in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BIO-Complexity, and Nature, and in such books as Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer and Life’s Solution by Simon Conway Morris.
A remarkable thing about evolutionary theory is the way it demands that we deny our intuition at almost every step. Evolutionists then assure us that the science is all figured out, so we needn’t trouble our silly heads about the relevant biology. In his new book, Douglas Axe of Biologic Institute turns this standard assurance on its head. In Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (HarperOne 2016), Dr. Axe restores the place of intuition alongside intellect in considering the question of life’s origins. …
In Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, biologist Doug Axe restores the place of intuition alongside intellect in considering the question of life’s origins. For more visit https://undeniabledesign.com/ …
A remarkable thing about evolutionary theory is the way it demands that we deny our intuition at almost every step. Evolutionists then assure us that the science is all figured out, so we needn’t trouble our silly heads about the relevant biology. In his new book, Douglas Axe of Biologic Institute turns this standard assurance on its head. In Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (HarperOne 2016), Dr. Axe restores the place of intuition alongside intellect in considering the question of life’s origins. …
She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype.
