Father of Intelligent Design

The Post ran a wonderful, must-read profile of Philip Johnson in Sunday's paper. Johnson is the founder of the intelligent design movement, which is currently challenging the Religion of Science and Darwinism's chokehold on the American education system.

Read the piece. Johnson is great--he debates evolutionists, then goes out for beers with them. It's nice to see that kind of collegiality among intellectual opponents.

In 1987, Johnson, "a devout Presbyterian and accomplished legal theorist," began reading Darwin and other evolutionary texts.

"I was struck by the breadth of Darwin's claims as opposed to how scanty were the observable changes." He peers at you with that unwavering gaze. "I said to my wife that I shouldn't take this up. I will be ridiculed and it will consume my life.

"Of course, it was irresistible."

Ahh yes. The rewards of living an honest life. You get the really tough jobs.

Johnson has written "Darwin on Trial" and "The Wedge of Truth."

Darwinists and Christians alike, he says, "start from faith, just as every house has a foundation." His friend Provine, Johnson says, has found faith in materialistic atheism. Johnson has found Christ.

Johnson, who is already back on the lecture trail, is not content with a Creator so deferential to natural processes as to fade into the cosmic woodwork. Johnson is convinced, intellectually and emotionally, that His hands have shaped human life -- and the evidence likely is there if only science will look for it.