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by Phillip E. Johnson (Author) "My professional life was transformed in the academic year 1987-1988, which I spent on sabbatical leave from Berkeley at University College, London..." (more)
Key Phrases: naturalistic evolution, scientific naturalists, evolutionary naturalism, Stephen Jay Gould, Maynard Smith, Richard Dawkins (more...)
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These essays by the author of "Darwin on Trial, Reason in the Balance", and "Defeating Darwinsim by Opening Minds" cover a wide range of topics, including evolution, law, and culture.

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  • Hardcover: 188 pages
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press (June 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 083081941X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0830819416
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very readable overview of issues related to modern culture, October 24, 1999
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A readable style, combined with short sentences and short essays overall, make this volume of book reviews and essays just the prescription for a busy person interested in some of the cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the origins debate. Johnson's basic position can be summed up by a sentence on page 61: "Darwinism is a lot stronger as philosophy than it is as empirical science." He demonstrates this fact by coming at it from several angles in the various articles. One of the interesting facts Johnson reveals is that some evolutionists use the same scorn and ridicule (rather than evidence) to attack each other as they do to attack the hated "creationists." The punctuated equilibria evolutionists call the natural selection evolutionists "Darwinian fundamentalists," while the natural selection evolutionists call the punctuated equilibria folks, "Punk eeks" and call the theory "evolution by jerks." Johnson believes that Darwinism has ten more years only before it gets relegated to history classes. Whether or not that is the case, the next ten years should prove very interesting in this arena.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Darwin Was Wrong, November 29, 2000
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Last year the Wall Street Journal reported that a Chinese paleontologist touring the U. S. was puzzled at the hostile reception he received in this country when he told of the lack of fossil evidence in China for Darwin's evolutionary theory. He said, "In my country, it's OK to criticize Darwin, but you can't criticize the government. In America, it's OK to criticize the government, but you're not supposed to criticize Darwin."

Reading Philip Johnson opens your eyes to the fact that although Darwin's work was insightful in certain matters pertaining to natural selection, his theory of evolution has almost no fossil evidence to back it up. Darwin admitted as much when he formulated his theory, hoping that future discoveries in the world's fossil beds would prove him right. So far, that evidence has never been forthcoming.

Many reviewers seem to take issue with Johnson for his lack of scientific credentials. However, we tend to forget that Henry Ford revolutionized personal transportation in this country, having had only an eighth grade education. It took a Nathan Pritikin, who lacked a formal medical degree, to get doctors in this country to admit that diet plays an important role in preventing heart disease. Even Albert Einstein flunked mathematics and never finished a legitimate Ph.D. Abraham Lincoln had only one year of formal schooling, yet was one of the most capable leaders this country has ever seen. To me, what a man has to say and the truth with which he says it carry more weight than how many degrees he has hanging on the wall.

"Objections Sustained" is an easy to read introduction to the ideas behind Johnson's problems with Naturalism. If that intrigues you, then go back and read "Darwin on Trial" and "The Wedge of Truth".

This issue is larger than just a battle between the status-quo scientific establishment versus Christian Fundamentalists. This is not a question of either-or. It is a matter of getting to the truth of how life really came to exist on this planet. Philip Johnson will do as much as any writer to stimulate your enlightened thinking on this subject. The real truth may turn out to be a little different than either our most brilliant scientists or the most devoted Creationists had in mind.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Johnson's Competence to critique Evolution, March 12, 2000
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Some of Reviews of this book, while praising Johnson's efforts, conclude that he should stick to the field of his expertise, and not write about "science". We are then urged to read "Origin of the Species" and note how reasoned it is etc. I did read Origin of the Species a couple of times years before Johnson came along. One of the things that bothered me about it was it made such quantum leaps from simple premises to complex conclusions. The problem is with the logic and that is an area that a law professor is eminently equipped to analyze and criticize. It is not difficult to show flaws in logic when Darwin argues from micro changes within a species to the conclusion that macro evolution has occurred from one species to another. As a matter proof, Darwin's logic is flawed. He was lionized primarily because he gave the scientific community something to hang their hats on so that they could espouse a theory (now called fact) that could be substituted for a creation. Johnson should continue his efforts to expose fuzzy thinking.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Social Commentary on Evolution by an Accomplished Scholar
Objections Sustained is a collection of essays by UC Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson. In the first half of the book, Johnson presents nine short chapters about Darwinists... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Please be realistic about science.
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Science is about making deductions from factual evidence. Read more
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What is the job of a scientist? To investigate and obtain new facts using observation and experimentation and to then draw reasoned, logical deductions based on the results of all... Read more
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The best part is when Johnson, during this tedious and endlessly fallacious appeal to authority, refers to the the celebrated physicist Richard P. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for a collection of essays
Essentially what Phillip Johnson zeroes in on, are the methodologies used among the more 'fundamentalistic' (shall we say) modern Darwinians, including Richard Dawkins. Read more
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