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Phillip Johnson, law professor emeritus of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, is widely recognized as the godfather of the contemporary intelligent design (ID) movement. As the author of several books and numerous articles explaining scientific, legal, and cultural dimension of the debate over ID and Darwinism, Johnson was one of the most prolific authors in the formative years of the movement.

It was Johnson’s 1991 book Darwin on Trial that first convinced many thinkers that neo-Darwinian evolution was buttressed more by a philosophy of naturalism than by the scientific evidence. Johnson’s influential writing became the magnet of scholars from a variety of fields—biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy, theology, and law—to forge the intelligent design movement.
Casey Luskin, “The Significance of Phillip Johnson” at Darwin on Trial

[JohnBrowdie]

I read that book years ago. very impressive; I quite enjoyed it.

[ealgeone]

The two questions I like to ask athiests and others who doubt God created it all are: how does something come from nothing and how does life come from lifelessness?

I like to ask people who profess to be believers if they believe the Genesis account to be a literal account of Creation; 6 24 hour days. If they say no, I ask which is harder to believe?

That Christ arose on the third day or that He was involved in the Creation of the Universe?

IF God cannot create the Universe in 6/24 hour days, then He is incapable of overcoming death or doing anything else in Scripture.

IF a person has a hard time believing a literal Genesis account of creation, they will most likely have a hard time believing the rest of the Bible.

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[Falconspeed]

God the Father uses evolution as His tool. Simple, clear and true.

“Intelligent design” is just a cruel joke by dishonest writers. God does not make mistakes that need to be cleaned up later. God the Father deserves 100% credit for how the speed of light has not altered its speed in fifteen billion years by even a millionth of a millionth of a fraction.

Johnson is a winner at law and a loser at physics. Behe is criminal how he twists the facts and expects people to be dumb.

Boalt is a top law school. My friend missed one question on the LSAT and did not get accepted to Boalt. Tough school.

At Cal the walk from Boalt Hall to the new Genetics Building is a long walk but worth the trip.

“Ancient repetitive elements” is the subject in genetics that leads humble students to learn that God uses evolution as His tool.

Good news: the understanding of the Creator’s use of evolution is leading to the discovery of cures for one thousand diseases. And the cures will be found, for sure, like chronic fatigue syndrome and breast cancer. Hope.

Sad how poor physics leads to silly conclusions, such as “sexual orientation is an identifiable class. False. Gays are 100% human like everyone else but handicapped with secondary, weird feelings that they can choose to get over if they wish.

[Montana_Sam]

Evolution, whether Darwinianism or any of the other forms, is a unicorn's tale told to uncomprehending pumpkin heads to calm their fears of the Great Pumpkin Eater in the Sky.

Evolution has been the spine of the movement to dumb down our kids. Sadly, it's working.

[Kalamata]

There is another eulogy today by Stephen Meyer, which includes this statement:

"What [Johnson] read made him more suspicious of evolutionary orthodoxy. 'Something about the Darwinists' rhetorical style,' he told me later, 'made me think they had something to hide.' An extensive examination of evolutionary literature confirmed this suspicion. Darwinist polemic revealed a surprising reliance upon arguments that seemed to assume rather than demonstrate that life had evolved via natural processes. Johnson also observed an interesting contrast between biologists' technical papers and their popular defenses of evolutionary theory. When writing in scientific journals, he discovered, biologists acknowledged many significant difficulties with both standard and newer evolutionary models.Yet, when defending basic Darwinist commitments (such as the common ancestry of all life and the creative power of the natural selection/mutation mechanism) in popular books or textbooks, Darwinists employed an evasive and moralizing rhetorical style to minimize problems and belittle critics. Johnson began to wonder why, given mounting difficulties, Darwinists remained so confident that all organisms had evolved naturally from simpler forms." [Stephen C. Meyer, "Your Witness, Mr. Johnson: A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial." Evolution News & Science Today, Nov 6, 2019]

https://evolutionnews.org/2019/11/your-witness-mr-johnson-a-retrospective-review-of-darwin-on-trial/

I place Johnson up there with Thomas Sowell as one of the great intellectuals of our time.

Mr. Kalamata