Intelligent design anything but scientific Sep 30, 2005
Intelligent design is a strategic movement founded by Phillip E. Johnson to alter public policy, education, and opinion to favor conservative viewpoints. To refine my previous question: does a religious argument and political strategy belong in a public school science classroom. (Ohio State University -- The Lantern, OH)
* 'Neo-creo:' a hip way to deride the creationists Aug 21, 2005
"We are a Christian organization and use the term to refer to the Christian God," says John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in Santee, California "The modern intelligent design movement looks at Dr. Phillip E. Johnson as its founder.... His book, Darwin on Trial, kind of started it all in the early '90s. We were using intelligent design as an intuitive term: a watch implies a watchmaker." (That mechanical analogy was first used by the philosopher William Paley in his... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Evolution vs. Religion: Aug 11, 2005
In a debate with Philip Kitcher, Phillip E. Johnson Darwinian evolution to alchemy, labeling it "a culturally dominant (and legally protected) creation myth that puts God effectively out of reality." In May, William Saletan that the creationists have evolved, but the evolutionists were too busy sneering to notice. Saletan in 2002 that the shift to ID is proof that science is winning the battle against religion. (Slate)
President Bush boosts design theory's profile Aug 6, 2005
" Intelligent design was first described as a concept in the 1991 book Darwin on Trial by lawyer Phillip E. Johnson. He argued that intelligence works in a specific and verifiable way and produces results that are mirrored in the natural world. Those results produce what intelligent design advocates call "specified complexity" to describe systems that appear to be built with deliberate purpose and function, much like, say, a jumbo jet is so specifically complex that it had to be created by... (Rocky Mountain News)
SACRAMENTO BEE: Bush weighs in on science education Aug 5, 2005
But Bush is following the script of the "intelligent design" movement and its founder, Phillip E. Johnson, in singling out evolution to get religious concepts into public school science classes. Johnson and a think tank called the Discovery Institute laid out what they called their "wedge strategy" in a 1999 document and Johnson's 2000 book, "The Wedge of Truth." They see the predominant scientific view that includes evolution as a "giant tree"; their strategy is to "cut it off at its source" by... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Editorial: Another wedge issue Aug 4, 2005
But Bush is following the script of the "intelligent design" movement and its founder, Phillip E. Johnson, in singling out evolution to get religious concepts into public school science classes ... "The Wedge of Truth," Phillip E. Johnson (InterVarsity Press, July 2000). (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
State House bill would allow schools to teach 'intelligent design' theory Jun 21, 2005
She cited writings from Phillip E. Johnson, author of "Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds," in which he lays out a "wedge strategy" of undermining evolutionary theory by "phrasing the argument in such a way as you can get it heard in the secular academy, and in a way that tends to unify the religious dissenters.". Even though some scientists -- most prominently Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe, who testified yesterday -- give the intelligent design concept the appearance of scientific... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Letters to the editor May 14, 2005
Phillip E. Johnson is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in the logic of arguments. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Scientist, lawyer debate intelligent design theory Dec 19, 2004
And the term "intelligent design" was reputedly coined in 1991 by Phillip E. Johnson, a law professor, in his book "Darwin on Trial.". Calvert, though, said the minority who favor intelligent design have unfairly been frozen out of the mainstream scientific community. (Lawrence Journal World)
Campus Notes - 4/15/04 Apr 15, 2004
ou college of law will host speaker Phillip E. Johnson from UC Berkeley at 7 p.m. in the Bell Courtroom. Info: James, 388-4444. (University of Oklahoma -- Oklahoma Daily, OK)
Checking Boxes: Transgender Chic Apr 2, 2004
Phillip E. Johnson, (InterVarsity, 2002). John Colapinto, (HarperCollins, 2000). (Townhall.com)
Christian History Corner: Will the Next Pope Be an African? Oct 17, 2003
Adding his voice is author Phillip E. Johnson, in an article titled "The African Century?" in the current issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. Johnson, a Presbyterian elder and emeritus Professor of Law at Berkeley, is best known in evangelical circles as the author of Darwin on Trial, The Wedge of Truth, and most recently, The Right Questions (all InterVarsity Press), books challenging the naturalistic assumptions that dominate modern culture (Christianity Today Magazine)
