In the latest issue of Touchstone Phillip E. Johnson reflects on the state of the conversation twenty years after the publication of his landmark book Darwin on Trial.
Here is his hopeful conclusion:
“I am confident that when we finally get a fair hearing before a scientific community that concurs with the principle that important terms must be defined clearly and used consistently, then the better logic will prevail and Darwinism will be relegated to intellectual history. My effort is not aimed at getting a popular majority to overrule the scientific community, but at appealing to the community of scientists to strive for freedom from those prejudices that interfere with clear-headed, logical thinking. In this era of springtime liberations, surely intellectual freedom will be restored in science.”