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Phillip E. Johnson: A Reading List from Gandalf

Watch an interview when he was healthy and you will see a man who swam in English like a dolphin loved water. Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson’s Legacy in Science Education and the Law

A Christianity Today obituary contains some misstatements about the law and legislative history regarding evolution education. Read More ›
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Phillip E. Johnson (1940-2019), Some Reflections

I want to underscore Phil’s pivotal role in organizing disparate voices critical of Darwinism and convinced of design in nature into a cohesive community. Read More ›
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Wonderful Profile of Phil Johnson in…the Washington Post?

In a 2005 article, Michael Powell begins by half-apologetically acknowledging that his newspaper has, in the editorial pages, taken a harsher view of ID than he evidently does. Read More ›
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A life-size C.S Lewis statue called The Searcher.

Science, Scientism, and Magic

The scientific culture of the 19th and early 20th century produced three great wizards — Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. Read More ›
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Remembering Phil Johnson: Visiting San Fran Will Never Be the Same

It pleased me to find out that his reading of my book was one of the major influences that motivated him to take up the fight. Read More ›
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Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever

Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data. Read More ›
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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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