Popping Darwin's Balloon
Phillip E. Johnson's Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
J. Richard Pearcey
October 1, 1997
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds By Pillip E. Johnson (InterVarsity Press, 1997), 132 pp. The twentieth century has given people who love liberty ample reason to long for the demise of Darwinism. Both communism and National Socialism, with their millions of dead, were based on naturalistic evolution. Marx considered Darwin's theory the "basis in natural science for the class struggle in history." And Nazis were quite willing to march to an ethic based on the survival of the fittest (in their view, the Aryan race) in the struggle for life. Well, the twenty-first century may in fact witness the end of Darwinism, if Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson is right. But the end will not come because of Darwinism's unsavory political associations. It will, rather, have been proved an unscientific program that lasted as long as it did, not because of the evidence, but simply because of its adherents' commitment to naturalistic philosophy. Johnson's new book, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, aims at hastening the demise of Darwinism by showing people how to win a respectful hearing for reasoned criticism of Darwinism despite the closed-minded opposition by evolution's true believers. Johnson deals with common misconceptions about the origins debate. The gravamen of the debate, he argues, is not between the Bible and science, or between faith and reason, or between an old and a young age for the earth. Rather, the issue is between naturalism and theism. Mainstream scientists reveal their underlying philosophy when they absolutely insist, says Johnson, that "evolution is an unguided and mindless process, and that our existence is therefore a fluke rather than a planned outcome." Thus, for example, in 1995 the National Association ...
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