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Title: The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0-8308-2267-4 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm
Comment: Phil Johnson's newest book is witty, incredibly insightful, and to the point. In less than two hundred pages, Johnson puts forth a devestating critique of modern materialist science and knowledge while putting forth his own models of each based on empirical investigation and the acknowledgement of personality and information as more fundemental than matter. Johnson points out that as long as chance and law are the only explanations allowed by the scientific elite as answers to the problem of the origin of genetic information, science will continue to spin its wheels in the mud and spin out more hollow just-so stories of how "evolution done it". Only when scientists recognize that complex, specified information is the hallmark of intelligent activity will the life sciences make real progress toward true explanations. A great read for the open minded.
Rating: 5
Summary: On the money
Comment: Phillip Johnson's best book yet -- the one I'd been waiting for. In this book he deals more with the philosophical issues and Christianity's response to those issues.
What is science? A search for TRUTH, at all costs? Or is it instrinsically bound to naturalism, a belief system? Why do evolutionists need to defend their beliefs by resorting to obfuscation and cheap propaganda?
Answers to these questions, and more, await you. This is a must-read book for anyone concerned about a philosophical movement which has had enormous negative consequences in recent history and promises worse to come; a movement dominating our culture today with little real criticism. Johnson offers the criticism, and begs for more. He also brings up what is becoming the key scientific issue (real science!): can the mechanism Darwinism describes actually create information from raw, inanimate materials (e.g., create cells with DNA and the ability to reproduce, which are necessary for natural selection even to start)?
When I was an undergrad, folks had bumper stickers that said things like "Challenge authority." It's high time we challenged the cultural "authority" of evolutionism and its negative view of the value of human life.
This book is an extension of the lead article in Touchstone magazine's double issue last summer on evolutionism (July/Aug 1999). Most of the other authors in that issue have books (Dembski, Behe, etc.) well worth reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible
Comment: Phillip Johnson is not a scientist, and does frankly not know what he is talking about. I mean that in the most literal way. He completely misunderstands fundamental concepts, and then attacks based on those, or states flatly that certain things are true, when they are not, at least not the way he means them.
I am not an atheist, just for all you born-agains out there. I am an evangelical Christian too, but fair is fair, and Christianity is not opposed to evolution in the way that Johnson makes it sound. He takes examples of scientists overstepping their bounds, or being dishonest, and uses them as the archetype of what he is talking about. He does not address the legitimate points of the evolutionsts who are being fair and reasonable; apparentlly he wants more to vent about the others than to engage people in a mutual discovery of truth.
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Title: The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate by Phillip E. Johnson, Nancy Pearcey ISBN: 0830822941 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830813241 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830819290 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830813608 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells, Jody F. Sjogren ISBN: 0895262002 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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