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Phillip E. Johnson
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“Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Claire Cooper, Legal Affairs Writer, published in "Berkeley Law Professor Finds Darwin Wanting: Author Calls Evolution 'Imaginative Story' ", Sacramento Bee, 3 June 1991, p. B5
“This [origins debate] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: World Magazine, 30 November 1996
“If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. … We call our strategy the "wedge.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, 1997, pp. 91-92
“The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreword to Creation, Evolution, & Modern Science (2000)
“We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Los Angeles Times (25 March 2001)
“The subject is not just the theory of evolution, the subject is the reality of God.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hank Hanegraaf's "Bible Answer Man" radio program (19 December 2001)
“We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hank Hanegraaf's "Bible Answer Man" radio program (19 December 2001)
“Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Family Radio (10 January 2003)
“I also don’t think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that’s comparable. Working out a positive theory is the job of the scientific people that we have affiliated with the movement. Some of them are quite convinced that it’s doable, but that’s for them to prove…No product is ready for competition in the educational world.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So the question is: "How to win?" That's when I began to develop what you now see full-fledged in the "wedge" strategy: "Stick with the most important thing" — the mechanism and the building up of information. Get the Bible and the Book of Genesis out of the debate because you do not want to raise the so-called Bible-science dichotomy. Phrase the argument in such a way that you can get it heard in the secular academy and in a way that tends to unify the religious dissenters. That means concentrating on, "Do you need a Creator to do the creating, or can nature do it on its own?" and refusing to get sidetracked onto other issues, which people are always trying to do.”
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Touchstone Magazine interview (June 2002)