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Phil Johnson
Photo: Phillip Johnson against the backdrop of Pajaro Dunes, a screenshot from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, via Illustra Media.

Phillip Johnson: The “Mahatma” of the Intelligent Design Movement 

Johnson spotted the slick tactics in evolutionary arguments, “the same rhetorical tricks that clever lawyers use when they have to defend a flawed case in court.” Read More ›
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Photo: Phillip E. Johnson gives a lecture on Darwin on Trial, via YouTube (screenshot).

Phil Johnson Helped Set the Course of My Life

During my early years of graduate school, I was wrestling with the question of whether I was an unintended accident of nature or the product of a Creator. Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson and the Rebellion of the Evidence

When Phil started talking, his diminutive stature and drab appearance melted away, replaced by a series of powerful arguments sharpened with irony and deadly accurate humor. Read More ›
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Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial

There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed. Read More ›
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Your Witness, Mr. Johnson: A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial

In Darwinist argumentation, Phillip Johnson found a panoply of euphemism and wishful thinking masquerading as evidence. Read More ›
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Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley

As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent. Read More ›
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Phillip E. Johnson: Men Must Endure Their Going Hence 

My grandmother once said in my hearing that she would endure any amount of pain, work, and difficulty for five more minutes with Papaw. Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson
Photo: Phillip E. Johnson, debating evolutionist Will Provine at Stanford University in 1994, via YouTube (screenshot).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Phil Johnson: The Seats Will Be Full

He gathered around him people with fresh takes, risk takers, even renegades, scientists who believed that evolution was an incomplete explanation for the patterns of life. Read More ›
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Will Provine

Remembering Will Provine, Friend and Adversary

Provine was one of those rare people with a strong viewpoint who is still willing to imagine that there is an opposing view that is worth hearing. Read More ›

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