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INTERVIEW:
Creation and Evolution
by Jerry Aust
The Good News: Concerning evolution and its effects on modern educational
systems, you mention intellectual superstition. What is that?
Phillip Johnson: What we get as science in the Darwinian theory of evolution
is not based on science. It's based on a prior commitment to materialism and philosophy.
Facts take second place to that philosophy, and therefore what we're getting is what
I call a materialist mythology. That's what I mean by intellectual superstition.
GN: As a lawyer and law professor, how did you become interested in
writing a book that analyzes Darwinism?
PJ: I was in England on sabbatical in 1987-88 and began reading on the subject.
I found it fascinating and began looking into it further. I found out many interesting
things. For example, some scientists at the British Natural History Museum were saying
things that were completely contrary to the Darwinian theory, and they were being
told to shut up and keep quiet. I looked into it to find out what was going on.
While there, I bought all kinds of scientific books and read the scientific journals
at the University of London, where I was a visiting professor. In retrospect, it's
perfectly logical that I should get into this subject, because fundamentally it's
all about the relationship between assumptions and proof. Specifically, people aren't
always forthright about their assumptions.
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