Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

With all the complicated scientific debate swirling around the topic of evolution, is there an easy way to understand the basic issues without oversimplifying? Phillip Johnson says there is: the key to defeating the false claims of Darwinism is to open our minds to good thinking habits. Here is first-rate advice on avoiding common mistakes in discussions about evolution, understanding the legacy of the Scopes trial, spotting deceptive arguments, and grasping the basic scientific issues without getting bogged down in unnecessary details.

In the bestselling and critically acclaimed Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance, Phillip Johnson exposed the misleading claims of evolutionary naturalism. Defeating Darwinism provides a new and powerful treatment of these issues for high-school students, parents, teachers, pastors, youth advisors and ordinary readers. Johnson aims not just to defeat a bad theory, but to defeat it the right way—by opening minds to the truth.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction



 
2. Emilio's Letter: Three Common Mistakes
3. Inherit the Wind: The Play's the Thing
4. Tuning Up Your Baloney Detector
5. A Real Education in Evolution
6. Intelligent Design
7. The Wedge: A Strategy for Truth
8. Modernism: The Established Religion of the West
9. Stepping off the Reservation
   
   Notes