Abstract
Johnson is one of the most audible/visible members of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. He is a lawyer, a member of the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance. Johnson speaks and writes often, usually on origins. He is a frequent contributor to Books and Culture, sister publication to Christianity Today. The ID movement does not claim that the earth is of recent origin, or that there have been no changes in living things. Its main claim is that the prevailing scientific paradigm, which Johnson calls naturalism, rules out (by definition, not because of evidence) the possibility that life is here because of an Intelligent Designer. The ID movement also claims that those thinking within the naturalistic paradigm take microevolution, which the ID movement accepts, as proof that macroevolution, which the ID movement does not accept, has happened. (Microevolution, if it really occurred, results in new races and species, macroevolution in new phyla or divisions.)