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To: Thatcherite
"I'm sure I noticed some Philip Johnson quotes on that list too, and I don't think you picked them up. You know who Johnson is?"

Yep. I got a little tired and after the first 20 or so just started browsing for interesting quotes. There were too many to do ALL of them.

"It (evolution) is sustained largely by a propaganda campaign that relies on all the usual tricks of rhetorical persuasion: hidden assumptions, question-begging statements of what is at issue, terms that are vaguely defined and change their meaning in midargument, attacks of straw men, selective citation of evidence, and so on. The theory is also protected by its cultural importance. It is the officially sanctioned creation story to modern society, and publicly funded educational authorities spare no effort to persuade people to believe it."

(Professor Phillip Johnson, "Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture," pg. 9) "

Yes, Philip Johnson, the well known evolutionist. lol
2,305 posted on 03/05/2006 8:53:16 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Yes, Philip Johnson, the well known evolutionist. lol

And biologist :)

2,306 posted on 03/05/2006 8:53:43 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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