Faith Well Grounded

A refutation of Darwinism by a noted lawyer and law professor. Given credit as the start of the modern creationism movement.

Author:

Philip E. Johnson

Publisher:

InterVarsity Press; 2 edition (November 1993)

ISBN:

0830813241

Pages:

220

Price:

$10.20 @ amazon.com

Rating:

7

Synopsis:

A refutation of Darwinism by a noted lawyer and law professor. Given credit as the start of the modern creationism movement.

Review:

Since its printing, Johnson has come under much fire from those on the opposite side of the argument, and this is to be expected. Most of the criticism is based on the accusations that he treats the subject as a lawyer, and uses law practices (such as suppression of evidence, misdirection, etc...) to bolster his arguments. With that said, I will not speak to these accusations, as I'm not really the person to do so.

I'm really not even going to speak much on the evidences presented for his argument, or the lack of evidence presented which could have damaged his argument. The reason for this is that the book's power is not in swapping evidences. I find this form of debate eventually falls into useless tedium and almost never makes the point of the debate.

Johnson's power is of a more presuppositional nature. He makes a powerful argument that (neo)Darwinian Evolution decides the results before hand and then interprets the evidences accordingly. In other words, naturalistic evolution is the only acceptable answer, therefor all evidence is interpreted in a "must-have" framework.

And he makes this argument very convincingly.

No book on the subject is going to be a silver bullet. Any subject as fiercely divided as evolution will produce poles of emotion. This book is no different. If your worldview is friendly to evolution, then you will not be impressed by this book. You may even get a bit perturbed. If you are predisposed to a skepticism of evolution, then you will probably very much appreciate "Darwin on Trial". I don't foresee a middle ground.

I liked the book. I think a lot of good points are made. If you want your skepticism of evolution fed, read it. If you are an evolutionist and want something to spike your blood pressure, read it.

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CS Lewis, in "Miracles", proposed that we can not trust our rationale if it is the result of mindless, unplanned, irrational causes. In other words, if the string of rationality is broken in the cause-effect string going back, then there is no rationality.

The implication is that if our logic and rationality is the result of naturalistic evolution, then we can't trust that logic and rationality. If our rationality is thus caused, then the rationality of naturalism has no basis and is self-defeating and internally inconsistent.

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This week, it's "The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul" (Freeman, 2001). This posts isn't necessarily about evolution, though I added it as a category since this is an associated subject and the blog is fueled by reading on such. This post, as usual, is about the Naturalistic philosophy being paraded as science.

Sometimes, the little things you do affect people in a big way.

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NOTE! Faith Well Grounded is absolutely and diametrically opposed to the "God Hates Fags" message and movement

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Why?

All that the Vatican has done is restate the tautology that they have always held. If Protestants look to the Roman Catholic Church for assurances that we are the Body and Bride of Christ, then there are bigger problems here than mere perception and theological ego.

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Let me know what you think about the changes. I'd love the input.

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What makes them important is two-fold. He cares enough to want me to have them, and he cares enough about the object (us together, playing golf) to memorialize them.