Douglas Axe
Douglas Axe is the director of the Discovery Institute-run Biologic Institute, co-author of Science and Human Origins, and signatory to the Discovery Institute petition A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.
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[edit] Credentials
Axe is a molecular biologist, and is as such one of relatively few people with real credentials affiliated with the intelligent design movement. Drawing on his knowledge of biology, Axe has authored a few relatively mundane papers, at least some of which have been published in low-tier, although genuine, journals. Although none of these papers contain – or even attempts to mount – any refutation of evolution, much less evidence for intelligent design, Axe’s work has been hailed by the Discovery Institute as evidence supporting their views. Even Axe himself has admitted that this is not the case.[1]
He has published extensively in the Biologic Institute’s house journal BIO-Complexity, but that does not count.
[edit] Fallacies and ignorance
Axe is on the record arguing that problems with evolution are evidence for intelligent design,[2] insofar as if the theory of evolution cannot explain some data it means that there can be no naturalistic explanation at all.
His expertise in the fields relevant to assessing evolutionary explanations has also been questioned.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Panda’s Thumb, Axe (2004) and the evolution of enzyme function
- ↑ Sandwalk, False Dichotomy, post from January 18, 2012.
- ↑ Pharyngula, Who Needs an IQ-Test When You’ve Got Coalescence.