Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism

Author: Phillip E. Johnson, Jefferson Peyser Emeritus Professor of Law - University of California at Berkeley

This article flows as one long chain of thought, and is thus rather difficult to summarize. Basically, Johnson thoroughly explores the dogmatic, metaphysical, naturalism that underlies Darwinism and easily illustrates its lack of empirical foundation. He essentially, and effecitvely, debunks myth after myth by showing that the basis of Darwinism lies in faith not fact.

He begins with the standard argument about what is wrong with creationism and picks it apart throughout the rest of the article. He covers a number of topics in the process including biology, paleontology, religion, and philosophy. He points out repeatedly that Darwinism is a belief system, devoid of hard facts or verifiability, dogmatically pressed upon Western culture by a small controlling minority of specialists who are better qualified as thought police rather than scientists. Darwinism is at odds with every form of teleology. It is important to understand the full implications of Darwinist propoganda; this article helps do just that.