Phillip E. Johnson
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
The Author Who Put Darwin on Trial Returns
with Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
For decades, Christians have
felt voiceless in the critical debate over evolution. Until now. Finally,
ordinary Christians have the opportunity and the resources to defeat the false
claims of Darwinism.
In his bestselling and
critically acclaimed Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance, Phillip Johnson
took on the academic elites and exposed the misleading claims of evolutionary
naturalism. Now, in Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds (132 pages, cloth,
0-8308-1362-4, $15.99; paper, 0-8308-1360-8, $9.99), he provides a new and
powerful treatment of these issues for high-school students, parents, teachers,
pastors, youth advisors and all concerned citizens. He provides first-rate
advice on avoiding common mistakes in discussions about evolution, understanding
the legacy of the Scopes trial, spotting deceptive arguments, and grasping basic
scientific issues. In so doing, he shows how ordinary people can defeat the
false claims of Darwinism the right way_by opening minds to the truth.
Phillip Johnson is a
graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago. He was a law clerk for Chief
Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court, and has taught law for
thirty years at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of
Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance.
Praise for
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds:
"Johnson feels his successful antievolution books, Darwin on Trial (1991) and
Reason in the Balance (1995), are more complicated than parents and teachers
need to prepare students to take on the evolutionists. Hence, this shorter
version of his overall thesis that also advises how to debate evolution. Johnson
first makes clear what he perceives the real adversary to be: a dogma that
insists life arose solely by chance and that denies contrary evidence a hearing.
He then counsels believers to avoid such common mistakes as retreating from
theism to deism (and so transforming a continuously creative God into an
uninvolved First Cause), to learn to spot faulty analogies and other forms of
poor logic, to know the soundest scientific data casting doubt on classical
evolution, and to persist_for, he says, the days of Darwinian hegemony are
numbered. He firmly believes and seeks to persuade readers that his ultimate
causes, aside from religious faith, are freedom of inquiry and the opening of
now closed minds." --Booklist
"Phillip Johnson is our age's clearest thinker on the issue of evolution and
its impact on society. This book is a superb introduction for high school and
college students --and their parents and teachers-- who want to come to
grips with the underlying philosophy of modern society." --Michael Behe,
author of Darwin's Black Box
"If everyone who is seriously involved with education, science and/or
religion were to read this book, it would do more than any other book I know of
to relieve the tensions between the religious right and the scientific and
religious left." --Huston Smith
"No one has better exposed the flaws, fallacies and myths of evolution than
Phillip Johnson." --Chuck Colson
To read excerpts from the
book, press HERE.
For more information
contact InterVarsity Press at (630) 887-2500, or visit our Web site at
http://www.ivpress.com
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