Additional Works by and about Phillip E. Johnson

The Evolution of a Creationist: Boalt Hall Professor Phillip Johnson Raises Some Heaven: Profile of Phillip E. Johnson first published in California Monthly, the alumni magazine of the University of California at Berkeley, in November 1991. Reproduced by permission.
The Church of Darwin: In response to a Kansas state board of education decision, Berkeley Law professor Phillip E. Johnson lashes out in this Wall Street Journal article: "Evolution is having serious trouble with the evidence--but its proponents don't want an honest debate...."
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism: A recent article by Dr. Johnson. "Sagan himself worried about opinion polls showing that only about 10 percent of Americans believe in a strictly materialistic evolutionary process, and, as Lewontin¹s anecdote concedes, some of the doubters have advanced degrees in the relevant sciences. Dissent as widespread as that must rest on something less easily remedied than mere ignorance of facts."
How to Sink a Battleship: A Call to Separate Materialist Philosophy from Empirical Science: Johnson discusses the three important events which symbolize the ideological shift that occurred in the second half of the 20th century. "The ship [evolutionary naturalism] has sprung a metaphysical leak, and that leak widens as more and more people understand it and draw attention to the conflict between empirical science and materialist philosophy."
What (If Anything) Hath God Wrought?: Academic Freedom and the Religious Professor: This essay appeared in the September, 1995 issue of Academe, the journal of the American Association of University Professors. Phillip Johnson examines the academic freedom rights of religious professors, specifically in the area of Darwinian theory. While concluding "many scientists and nonscientists think that the Darwinian theory of evolution -- and the naturalistic worldview that underlies and sustains it -- is a special territory to which the usual rules of academic freedom do not apply." Johnson encourages open debate over these fundamental questions as a service to the search for truth.
Very Intelligent Design: Article by Joel Belz from World magazine. "Somehow, Phillip Johnson, the law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has gained a national reputation for his arguments against Darwinism, seems more suited to the sophisticated game of chess than to dominoes. But clearly, Mr. Johnson understands the domino theory."
Witnesses for the Prosecution: Article by Joel Belz from World magazine. "Darwin on Trial author brings together anti-Darwin coalition to bring down evolution." Belz discusses Johnson's role in the Mere Creation Conference held at Biola University in 1996.
God and Evolution: An Exchange: This dialogue between Dr. Johnson and Howard J. Van Till appeared in the June/July 1993 edition of First Things journal. Johnson and theistic evolutionist Van Till dialogue over Christian belief and its relationship to contemporary scientific theorizing.
The Storyteller and the Scientist: Johnson reviews Richard Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable and Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box.
Domesticating Darwin: Johnson reviews In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by Carl Degler.
The Judicial Culture Wars: Johnson reviews Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age by Robert F. Nagel.

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