Tag: Phillip E. Johnson
Phillip Johnson Reflects on Darwin on Trial Anniversary
“Steve Meyer and I found that our minds were moving in the same direction during a long conversation as we walked along the ‘backs’ at Cambridge.”
Time Flies: Darwin on Trial Twenty Years Later
“Cuts like a knife through neo-Darwinist assumptions.” — Publishers Weekly
Phillip Johnson on Dogmatic Signs
This month’s edition of Touchstone Magazine has a great column by the godfather of intelligent design, Phillip Johnson, offering his review of Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell and his take on why the book has been met with such an uproar in the blogosphere: In another way, however, it is peculiar that there is such a furious and often ill-informed objection to a learned volume that isn’t even about the theory of biological evolution. The book advances well-reasoned arguments based on solid evidence about a prior problem — the origin of the cell’s information content — concerning which most scientists would concede that they know very little. The one thing that many of these scientists think they do know Read More ›
Phillip Johnson and William Provine on Focus on the Family
Recently Focus on the Family aired part one of a two-part series on evolution. Reaching back into the archives, they played selections from a 1994 debate between intelligent design advocate Phillip Johnson (U.C. Berkeley) and Darwin-defender William Provine (Cornell). One thing in particular struck me: ID advocates are often accused of wanting to push ID into the public high school classroom. Yet even in this early debate, Phillip Johnson clearly notes that ID advocates would be happy just to see Darwinism taught fairly with both its strengths and weaknesses made clear. And, more importantly, ID advocates would like to see the academy open up to discussion of intelligent design — not primarily the high school classroom.You can listen to part Read More ›
Phillip Johnson Gives State of the Debate Report in Think Philosophy Journal
In Think, a philosophy journal published by The Royal Institute of Philosophy, Phillip Johnson has published an article entitled “Intelligent Design in Biology: the Current Situation and Future Prospects” which assesses the current state of the debate over intelligent design. The full article may be read here. Johnson explains that, despite the advances of the 20th century, many Darwinists still use old arguments that merely reflect microevolution. Johnson writes regarding the Galapagos finches: To make the story look better, the National Academy of Sciences improved on some the facts in its 1998 booklet on Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science. This version of the story omits the beaks’ return to normal and encourages teachers to speculate that a Read More ›