An article by Phil Johnson can be found at
http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/14.10docs/14-10pg11.html
Below are two paragraphs from that article of interest.
>Disenchantment with Freud turned Crews towards Darwin, and then to Richard
>Dawkins-style aggressive atheism. Many Darwinists try to avoid tying
>Darwinism too explicitly to atheism, for fear that the Christians will
>make serious trouble if they are not offered a fig leaf to cover their
>cognitive nakedness. Hence the patently insincere "compatibilism" of the
>PBS Evolution series (scoffingly dubbed "the neutered Darwin" by the
>Internet magazine Slate), which insists that Darwinism, including even
>such blatantly ideological branches as evolutionary psychology, is opposed
>only by Genesis literalists. The series shows biology professor Kenneth
>Miller taking Roman Catholic Communion to convey the impression that
>Darwinism is compatible even with the most traditional forms of
>Christianity.
>
>Fred Crews will have none of this prevarication. He dismisses Stephen Jay
>Gould's lofty concept that science and religion are "non-overlapping
>magisteria" (with science policing the boundary) by remarking that "As
>Phillip Johnson has understandably complained, 'This is "separate but
>equal" of the apartheid variety." Crews told me that I would hate his
>pro-Darwinist essays, but of course I loved them. My goal has been to
>carry the case against Darwinism into the intellectual mainstream, and
>that effort has spectacularly succeeded when the editors of The New York
>Review of Books feel that they have to devote most of two issues to a
>defense of the endangered orthodoxy. Besides, my strategy requires driving
>a wedge between the atheistical Darwinists and their dupes in the
>religious world. Now it looks as if the most uncompromising Darwinists are
>going to wield the hammer for me.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
kbmill@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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