Invention can't happen by accident
Work
Areas of Expertise
The big question: To what or whom do we owe our existence?
Molecular Biology
Dr. Axe’s research, published in journals such as the Journal of Molecular Biology, focuses on the structure and function of proteins, suggesting that functional proteins are incredibly rare within the space of possible amino acid sequences, making them difficult to evolve by chance.
Evolution
Through his work, Dr. Axe evaluates whether standard evolutionary mechanisms—such as random mutation and natural selection—are sufficient to explain the origin of life’s extremely complex systems.
Intelligent Design
In his book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, Dr. Axe demonstrates the innate human ability to discern between what is designed and what is accidental, and argues that biological systems show evidence of being designed rather than arising by chance.
About Dr. Axe
Douglas Axe holds the Rosa Endowed Chair of Molecular Biology at Biola University, where he is also Professor of Computational Biology and faculty advisor to the AI Lab. He is the author of Undeniable—How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (HarperCollins). After earning his Ph.D. at Caltech, Axe conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre. His work, focusing on protein evolution and the stability of genetic information, has been featured in leading journals like the Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, and Nature.
“Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible.”
— Undeniable
Where to start
An introduction to Dr. Axe's research
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