Phillip Johnson Links

The Wedge of Truth by Phillip Johnson: With his latest book, Phillip Johnson contends that true science actually points to the reality of the Creator, and to the truth of the biblical proposition that In the beginning was the Word.
Phillip E. Johnson website: Sponsored by Access Research Network, this official Phillip Johnson website contains Dr. Johnson's speaking schedule, bibliography, list of book reviews, list of online articles, book and tape catalog, and review essays from Books and Culture.
Phillip E. Johnson website: Sponsored by the University of California Santa Barbara's Faculty/Staff Christian Forum, this site contains Dr. Johnson's bibliography, list of book reviews, list of online articles, book and tape catalog, and review essays from Books and Culture.
How Did We Get Here?: An ongoing cyber-debate sponsored by NOVA Online between Dr. Johnson and Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University and the author of Biology. "NOVA Online asked two leading spokesmen in the evolution/creation debate to discuss the question, 'How did we get here?' The participants have agreed to keep their letters to less than 500 words and have been given equal time to write them."
You say you want a devolution?: This article from World magazine was written by Jay Grelen and was the cover story of World's November 1997 issue. "Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson cheerfully deconstructs the scientific church of Darwin."
Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianity: A review by Dr. Johnson on this book by Mike Bryan. "Chapter and Verse is generous in spirit but tough in mind, and the people it describes are a joy to meet. I hope Mike Bryan will visit another important subculture and write a book about the experience. This time I wish he would forego religion and inhabit the world of the scientists."
The Creationist and the Sociobiologist: Two Stories About Illiberal Education: Dr. Johnson's review of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education. "In a liberal culture, it is a great rhetorical advantage to appear in a dispute as the champion of free speech against the forces of repression. The left has held this advantage for a long time. The student revolt of the 1960s opened with a 'Free Speech Movement,' and the bumper sticker that directs us to 'Question Authority' implies that the left's politics is a matter of raising questions rather than imposing answers. Recently, however, academic traditionalists like Dinesh D'Souza have seized the moral high ground by describing a left-imposed atmosphere of 'political correctness' in the universities that leads to 'illiberal education.' In effect, they have captured the bumper sticker and turned its message around."
Comparing Hostage-Takers: This paper, which appeared even before the publication of Darwin on Trial, shows Phillip Johnson attempting to find common ground with theistic evolutionists like Howard Van Till of Calvin College. All such attempts failed, and in his Founder's Lectures at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1992, Johnson coined the term "theistic naturalism" to describe the Van Till position. Read this paper if you want to understand see how conciliatory Johnson was at the beginning.
Darwinists Squirm Under Spotlight: This interview is reprinted from an interview with Citizen magazine, January 1992. The interview focuses on Johnson's book Darwin on Trial.
Darwinism's Rules of Reasoning: This paper was originally delivered at a plenary session of the Southwestern Anthropological Association in Berkeley, California in April, 1992. It was subsequently published in the California Anthropologist and in Rivista di Biologia (1994) (in Italian and English). A similar lecture is included in the collection Darwinism: Science or Philosophy? (Buell & Hearn ed. 1994).
Daniel Dennett's Dangerous Idea: This review of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel Dennett, was published in The New Criterion (October, 1995). "Daniel Dennett's fertile imagination is captivated by the very dangerous idea that the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution should become the basis for what amounts to an established state religion of scientific materialism."
The Extinction of Darwinism: This review of David M. Raup's Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? was first published in The Atlantic, February, 1992. "David Raup's new [1991] book Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? is something more than the usual scientific journalism. Raup, a senior paleontologist at the University of Chicago, is a leading figure among the scientists who have made 'catastrophe' a respectable concept once again in the scientific study of the earth's history. His book is a very readable but state-of-the-art account of what scientists know about why dinosaurs and all those other fossil species aren't with us any more.
Nihilism and the End of Law: This article from First Things journal first appeared in March 1993. "As modernist rationalism gives way in universities to its own natural child - postmodernist nihilism, modernists are learning very slowly what a bargain they have made. It isn't a bargain a society can live with indefinitely."

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