Undeniable : how biology confirms our intuition that life is designed

Named A Best Book of the Year by World Magazine 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. 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. Dedication......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 1 The Big Question......Page 5 2 The Conflict Within......Page 13 3 Science in the Real World......Page 21 4 Outside the Box......Page 33 5 A Dose of Common Science......Page 44 6 Life Is Good......Page 50 7 Waiting for Wonders......Page 65 8 Lost in Space......Page 83 9 The Art of Making Sense......Page 98 10 Coming Alive......Page 117 11 Seeing and Believing......Page 133 12 Last Throes......Page 153 13 First World......Page 167 14 The New School......Page 179 Acknowledgments......Page 194 Notes......Page 196 Credits......Page 205 Index......Page 206 Color Plates......Page 215 About the Author......Page 219 Copyright......Page 221 About the Publisher......Page 222