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Darwin's Nemesis:

Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
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William A. Dembski
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InterVarsity Press, Feb 22, 2006 - Religion - 357 pages
With the publication of Darwin on Trial in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis in scientific research. This book reviews and celebrates the life and thought of Phillip Johnson and the movement for which he has served as chief architect. Editor William A. Dembski presents eighteen essays by those who have known and worked with Johnson for more than a decade. They provide personal and in-depth insight into the man, his convictions and his leadership of the intellectual movement that called into question the hegemony of Darwinian theory.Contributors includeStephen MeyerMichael BeheJay Wesley RichardsThomas WoodwardFrancis BeckwithTimothy StandishDavid BerlinskiMichael RuseDavid Keller Jonathan WellsScott Minnich Nancy PearceyJay BudziszewskiMarcus Ross Paul NelsonHenry Schaefer III Wesley AllenWalter BradleyPhillip E. Johnson
  

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"although for an account of the most recent and current controversies over ID, they will need to consult other sources"
Indeed. Let me suggest, for a statement of what Johnson is really after
(briefly, the dismemberment of the Enlightenment) his books "Defeating Darwinism" and "The Wedge"; as well as the Wedge document istelf (google or wikipedia for it), and, for a description of how Dembski himself would treat academic dissenters his contribution to "Unapologetic Apologetics" (again, in collaboration with Johnson, as well as Richards and other members of the Discovery Institute.
Let no one accuse these people of shamefacedness, or lack of ambition.
 

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This Festschrift from friends-and a couple of friendly critics-honors Phillip Johnson, the Berkeley law professor whose 1991 publication Darwin on Trial and later books helped intelligent design ... Read full review

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Contents

PREFACE
11
A MYTHIC LIFE
25
YOUR WITNESS MR JOHNSON A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial
33
FROM MUTTERING TO MAYHEM How Phillip Johnson Got Me Moving
37
HOW PHIL JOHNSON CHANGED MY MIND
48
PUTTING DARWIN ON TRIAL Phillip Johnson Transforms the Evolutionary Narrative
62
DEALING WITH THE BACKLASH AGAINST INTELLIGENT DESIGN
81
ITS THE EPISTEMOLOGY STUPID Science Public Schools and What Counts as Knowledge
105
COMMON ANCESTRY ON TRIAL
164
THE ORIGIN OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION AND THE HIGHER TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES
174
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF COORDINATE FLAGELLAR AND TYPE III REGULATORY CIRCUITS IN PATHOGENIC BACTERIA
214
INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND THE DEFENSE OF REASON
227
PHILLIP JOHNSON WAS RIGHT THE RIVALRY OF NATURALISM AND NATURAL LAW
244
A TAXONOMY OF TELEOLOGY Phillip Johnson the Intelligent Design Community and YoungEarth Creationism
261
COMPLEXITY CHAOS AND GOD
276
PHILLIP JOHNSON AND THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT Looking Back and Looking Forward
305

CUTTING BOTH WAYS The Challenge Posed by Intelligent Design to Traditional Christian Education
117
TWO FABLES BY JORGE LUIS BORGES
135
DARWINISM AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
139
THE WEDGE OF TRUTH VISITS THE LABORATORY
153
THE FINAL WORD
315
Notes
318
Contributors
348
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William Dembski (Ph.D., mathematics, University of Chicago; Ph.D., philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) is senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has previously taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University, and he has been a National Science Foundation doctoral and postdoctoral fellow. Dembski has written numerous scholarly articles and is the author of the critically acclaimed The Design Inference (Cambridge), Intelligent Design (InterVarsity Press) and No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence (Rowman and Littlefield).

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