"Wedge" Archives

• Two New Videos and More (4.02.02) Phil talks about two new ID videos, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, and Icons of Evolution. more ...
• A Book on the Way, and the Latest from Ohio (3.14.02) Having spent the last months finishing a new manuscript, Phillip Johnson shares some thoughts about the most recent events in Ohio. more ...
• Monkey Trial Airs on PBS (2.25.02) Phillip Johnson talks about the recent airing of Monkey Trial on PBS, pointing out in particular how the show demolishes the Inherit the Wind myth. more ...
• More from Ohio (1.31.02) In this week's installment, Phillip Johnson (with the help of John Calvert) discusses the Ohio School Board situation in greater depth. He cites, in particular, the interest in intelligent design shown by the Science Standards Committee of the Board. more ...
• Curriculum Controversy in Ohio (1.17.02) Unhappy with an early draft of the proposed science curriculum for grades K-12, several members of the Ohio State Board of Education are pushing for a rewrite that would present evolution as "an assumption, not fact," and would include an alternative explanation for how humans and all other living things came to exist. more ...
• Catching Up on Business (1.09.02) Phil updates his situation and updates his speaking schedule. more ...
• Wells Hits a Home Run at Harvard (12.02.01) Phillip Johnson talks about the latest events, including a follow-up to the recent Wells/Palumbi debate at Harvard.  more ...
• An Interview with the BBC (11.27.01) Phillip Johnson is interviewed by the BBC, and more on the Dembski Kauffman debate in New Mexico.  more ...
• Dembski and Kauffman Square Off in New Mexico (11.19.01) On Tuesday, November 13th, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque about 500 to 600 people attended a remarkable event. William Dembski and Stuart Kauffman had a public encounter in which Kauffman, the preeminent self-organizational theorist of the Santa Fe Institute, publicly admitted that intelligent design was a legitimate intellectual and scientific project and that research projects like SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) couldn't even get off the ground without it.  more ...
• Dembski/Pigliucci Debate (11.13.01) A summary of the Dembski/Pigliucci Debate held November 1, 2001 at the New York Academy of Sciences more ...
• No Free Lunch (10.30.01) Phillip Johnson introduces William Dembski's latest book, No Free Lunch, along with a short note from William Dembski.  more ...
• My return to public lecturing, and the New York Review of Books plays its part in the Wedge strategy (10.09.01) Phillip Johnson continues his discussion of a two-part article by Frederick C. Crews in the New York Review of Books. Johnson states that in the second part of the article Crews "gives similar treatment to the accommodationist efforts of John Haught, Michael Ruse, Stephen Jay Gould, and Kenneth Miller, agreeing with William Provine that 'If you want to marry Christian doctrine with modern evolutionary biology, you have to check your brains at the church-house door.'"  more ...
• New York Review Enters the Fray (9.25.01) In this week's article, Phillip Johnson discusses a two-part article by Frederick C. Crews in the New York Review of Books, which "trashes books by Michael Behe, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, and myself." Johnson states, "The long review provides no evidence that Crews has read the books, much less thought seriously about the issues; it consists mainly of standard scientific materialist put-downs  that could have been stitched together from handouts distributed by any of the so-called “skeptic” societies." more ...
• Divisive Issues (9.10.01) Returning to his weekly column, Phillip Johnson discusses a potentially divisive issue among the scientific community, citing Michael Ruse's argument in a recent book that Darwinists can also be Christians. Welcome back Phil! more ...
• More Discussion with Richard Dawkins (8.13.01) On Friday, July 13, 2001, Phil Johnson suffered a stroke.  He is currently undergoing rehabilitation therapy, and hopes to return to his normal activities soon.  The following Weekly Wedge Update was in preparation when Phil became ill.  It covers recent correspondence between Phil and Richard Dawkins, and concludes with comments from Paul Nelson. more ...
• Richard Dawkins (7.09.01) Phillip Johnson talks about recent email dialogs with Richard Dawkins, and cites more examples of the "empty rants" of scientific materialism. more ...
• Louisville and Kansas City (7.02.01)
  Phillip Johnson was on the road last week, spending three days at The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, teaching a course to seminarians and pastors on “Equipping for Ministry in Today’s University Culture.” Johnson also attended the second annual “Darwin, Design, and Democracy” symposium in Kansas City June 29-30 sponsored by the Kansas Intelligent Design Network. This week's report also includes a few light-hearted thoughts by Jonathan Wells. more ...
• Scott Blows Smoke in Science (6.25.01)
  This week's Update talks about Eugenie Scott's review in the June 22 issue of Science, which attacks Jonathan Wells’ famous book Icons of Evolution, a book that exposes the errors and frauds permeating evolutionary biology textbooks.Johnson also discusses a recent ID cover story from the San Francisco Weekly. more ...
• Errors and Alarms (6.18.01)
  In this week's report Phillip Johnson discusses the prevalence of errors and misunderstandings in Darwinist writing. According to Johnson, these misunderstandings demonstrate the need for an open process of public discussion, to help citizens (and even professors) to become better informed.  Johnson also discusses this week's endorsement by the United States Senate of an intellectual freedom resolution for science education. more ...
• The Pennsylvania Controversy (6.11.01)
  This week's Wedge Update contains a letter from Michael Behe supporting the proposed changes in the Pennsylvania Science Education Standards. Phillip Johnson also provides an update on last week's events. more ...
• Conferences at Calvin College, Kansas City, and Elsewhere (6.04.01)
  Phillip Johnson talks about last weeks conferences and lectures, as well as upcoming events. He also emphasizes the importance of Design conferences, stating "Conferences are important not only for what is said in the lectures and workshop sessions, but as a sign that discussion of Design in biology has become almost a routine matter in the academic world." more ...
• New Books (5.28.01)
  The big event last week was the conference May 24-26 at Calvin College on "Design, Self-organization, and the Integrity of Creation" hosted by Bill Dembski and featuring many of the Wedge authors. Phillip Johnson also discusses two new books, How Blind is the Watchmaker? by Neil Broom, and Darwin's God by Cornelius G. Hunter. more ...
• Lectures Far and Wide (5.21.01)
  Phillip Johnson talks about the events of the past week, including his lecture in Sacramento, Jonathan Wells, and Roger DeHart. He also shares the experience of a Colorado Springs student's presentation on teaching evolution, as well as more press coverage for Intelligent Design. more ...
• Lectures, Articles,and Debates (5.14.01)
  It was a busy week on the ID front, with Phillip Johnson lecturing in Winnipeg at the Christian Medical and Dental Association of Canada, and in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the annual convention of the Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania. Favorable ID coverage continued, and a debate was held at California State University Fullerton between paleontologist Niles Eldredge of the New York Museum of Natural History and Biola University philosophy professor John Mark Reynolds. more ...
• Icons of Evolution Exposed on CNN (5.07.01)
  The big news this week was the CNN telecast overnight on May 3, on their CNN Newsroom Special Series show that is used in many public and private school classrooms. more ...
• DNA Demoted (4.30.01)
  One complaint that Darwinists like to make against the Intelligent Design movement is that the concept of “design” supposedly does not lead to any scientific research program. Once scientists confirm that organisms really are designed, the caricature is that they just throw up their hands, say “God did it somehow,” and then go off to church. more ...
• Inherit the Wind in Reverse (4.23.01)
  The past month has been the best ever for the Intelligent Design movement. On March 25 the Los Angeles Times had a good story about us on page one, featuring the "Inherit the Wind in reverse" Darwinist persecution of high school teacher Roger DeHart. DeHart has been ordered by administrators to stop trying to open the minds of his students, by (among other things) distributing Stephen Jay Gould's article in Natural History, which acknowledges that the embryo drawings in the biology textbooks are fraudulent. more...
• The Wedge: A Progress Report (4.16.01)
  Approximately ten years ago, I formulated the Wedge strategy with two related goals. The first was to legitimate the topic of intelligent design, and hence the critique of Darwinism and its basis in naturalistic philosophy, within the mainstream intellectual community. The second was to make the critique of naturalism the central focus of discussion in the religious world, replacing the deadlocked debate over the Genesis chronology which had enabled the Darwinists to employ the "Inherit the Wind stereotype" so effectively. more...

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