Phillip E. Johnson Quotes
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
Johnson, Phillip E. Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education. InterVarsity Press, 1995, p. 38.
Sometimes misquoted as “If there is no God, everything is permitted.”
Although a heroine of modern conservatives, Rand was hostile to religion. Where most conservatives would refer to “God-given rights”, Ayn Rand, argued that a human’s very existance was the warrant and sanction of his rights.
Phillip E. Johnson was a UC Berkeley law professor, opponent of evolutionary science, co-founder of the pseudoscientific intelligent design movement, author of the "Wedge strategy" and co-founder of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC) . He described himself as "in a sense the father of the intelligent design movement". He was a critic of Darwinism, which he described as "fully naturalistic evolution, involving chance mechanisms and natural selection". The wedge strategy aims to change public opinion and scientific consensus, and seeks to convince the scientific community to allow a role for theism, or causes beyond naturalistic explanation, in scientific discourse. Johnson argued that scientists accepted the theory of evolution "before it was rigorously tested, and thereafter used all their authority to convince the public that naturalistic processes are sufficient to produce a human from a bacterium, and a bacterium from a mix of chemicals."
