Darwin's Nemesis

Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement

Edited by William A. Dembski
Foreword by Rick Santorum

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 357 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: February 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2836-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2836-4
IVP Order Code: 2836

Related Subjects

Creation, Evolution & Intelligent Design

Foreword by Senator Rick Santorum
Preface by William A. Dembski
Introduction: A Mythic Life

Part I: Portraits of the Man and His Work
1. Your Witness, Mr. Johnson: A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial
2. From Muttering to Mayhem: How Phillip Johnson Got Me Moving
3. How Phil Johnson Changed My Mind
4. Putting Darwin on Trial: Phillip Johnson Transforms the Evolutionary Narrative

Part II: The Wedge and Its Despisers
5. Dealing with the Backlash Against Intelligent Design
6. It's the Epistemology, Stupid! Science, Public Schools and What Counts as Knowledge
7. Cutting Both Ways: The Challenge Posed by Intelligent Design to Traditional Christian Education

Part III: Two Friendly Critics
8. Two Fables by Jorge Luis Borges
9. Darwinism and the Problem of Evil

Part IV: Johnson's Revolution in Biology
10. The Wedge of Truth Visits the Laboratory
11. Common Ancestry on Trial
12. The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories
13. Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits in Pathogenic Bacteria

Part V: Ever-Increasing Spheres of Influence
14. Design and the Recovery of Truth
15. Phillip Johnson Was Right: The Rivalry of Naturalism and Natural Law
16. A Taxonomy of Teleology: Phillip Johnson, the Intelligent Design Community and Young-Earth Creationism
17. Complexity, Chaos and God

Part VI: Epilogue
18. Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement: Looking Back and Looking Forward
19. The Final Word

Contributors
Index