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Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courageous questions that professor of law Phillip Johnson originally took up in 1991. His relentless pursuit to follow the evidence wherever it leads remains as relevant today as then. The facts and the logic of the arguments that purport to establish a theory of evolution based on Darwinian principles, says Johnson, continue to draw their strength from faith--faith in philosophical naturalism. In this edition Johnson responds to critics of the first edition and maintains that scientists have put the cart before the horse, regarding as scientific fact what really should be regarded as a yet unproved hypothesis. Also included is a new, extended introduction by noted biologist Michael Behe, who chronicles the ongoing relevance of Johnson's cogent analysis.

ISBN-13: 9780830838318

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Publication Date: 10-05-2010

Pages: 247

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Phillip E. Johnson is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School. He taught law for more than thirty years at the University of California at Berkeley where he is professor emeritus. For the last decade Johnson has also been at the forefront of the public debate over evolution and creation. He has taken his message to such places as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His InterVarsity Press titles include Reason in the Balance, The Wedge of Truth, The Right Questions and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds.

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Chapter One


The Legal Setting<

What People are Saying About This

Michael Denton

Praise for the first edition: "Darwin on Trial is unquestionably the best critique of Darwinism I have ever read. Professor Johnson combines a broad knowledge of biology with the incisive logic of a leading legal scholar to deliver a brilliant and devastating attack on the whole edifice of Darwinian belief."
— Michael Denton, molecular biologist and author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 20th Anniversary Edition Michael J. Behe 9

Preface to the Second Edition (1993) 19

1 The Legal Setting 21

2 Natural Selection 34

3 Mutations Great and Small 53

4 The Fossil Problem 67

5 The Fact of Evolution 86

6 The Vertebrate Sequence 99

7 The Molecular Evidence 113

8 Prebiological Evolution 129

9 The Rules of Science 141

10 Darwinist Religion 154

11 Darwinist Education 165

12 Science and Pseudoscience 179

Epilogue: The Book and Its Critics 190

Research Notes 205