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Title: The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0-8308-2395-6 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (46 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: On the money
Comment: Phillip Johnson's best book yet -- the one I'd been waiting for. In this book he deals more with the philosophical issues and Christianity's response to those issues.
What is science? A search for TRUTH, at all costs? Or is it instrinsically bound to naturalism, a belief system? Why do evolutionists need to defend their beliefs by resorting to obfuscation and cheap propaganda?
Answers to these questions, and more, await you. This is a must-read book for anyone concerned about a philosophical movement which has had enormous negative consequences in recent history and promises worse to come; a movement dominating our culture today with little real criticism. Johnson offers the criticism, and begs for more. He also brings up what is becoming the key scientific issue (real science!): can the mechanism Darwinism describes actually create information from raw, inanimate materials (e.g., create cells with DNA and the ability to reproduce, which are necessary for natural selection even to start)?
When I was an undergrad, folks had bumper stickers that said things like "Challenge authority." It's high time we challenged the cultural "authority" of evolutionism and its negative view of the value of human life.
This book is an extension of the lead article in Touchstone magazine's double issue last summer on evolutionism (July/Aug 1999). Most of the other authors in that issue have books (Dembski, Behe, etc.) well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vintage Johnson
Comment: Phillip Johnson's The Wedge of Truth may be his most insightful book yet. His trenchant critique of philosophical naturalism, especially when it is disguised as empirical science, has helped start an intellectual movement. In this book, he purifies that critique, reducing it to a simple, irresistible question: What if science, defined as the search for truth based on evidence about the natural world, conflicts with science as defined (materialistically) as the search for *naturalistic* explanations about the natural world? The "Wedge" metaphor, in the domain of science, is precisely the attempt to split apart these two definitions of science. Once the question is seriously considered, the genie is out of the bottle. No one not already committed to naturalism (whether philosophical or methodological) has any trouble knowing how to answer the question. The only ways to avoid its implications are to play definition games and assert raw power over those who ask it. We should expect much of both these tactics from Johnson's critics.
Of course, this book asks a number of other probing questions, all of which Johnson argues should be fair game in the public square, at least in any society that dares call itself democratic. To discover those other questions, buy the book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Meant for the Church.
Comment: I've listened to lots of debates about macroevolution in the past several years. I've read lots of books on the subject. From all that I've seen and heard, it places me in complete agreement with what Phillip Johnson has to say in THE WEDGE OF TRUTH. He points out things (ideas, concepts, etc) that the average person has probably never seriously thought about before and how those who follow a naturalistic faith use these things to exchange logic and true reason for rationality.
THE WEDGE OF TRUTH is a book written for Christians. It illustrates to the reader some of the history of how things got the way they are and the flaws in logic that are beginning to cause the foundations of naturalism to quake and fall apart. Johnson experesses in the book that one of the purposes of the book is to help others become a wedge in the cracks of naturalistic theories so that others can come along later and use that wedge to break apart the false ideas and let truth shine forth. The book deals with such things as the difference between reason and rationalization and how rationalization is killing modern science, the problem of there being no information-enhancing process in naturalism, why naturalist fear the theory of intelligent design, the difference between mind and matter, and what can be done to reunite science and religion. I found the book very interesting and helpful. I think it's a book that any educated Christian who has at least some idea about the problems of naturalism would benefit from reading, especially if that person doesn't have very much scientific training.
As a side note, I normally don't directly respond to other reviews that people have posted here, but this is a time when I will make an exception. After reading several of the reviews posted here, it is clear that a lot of people who have written reviews for this book have not read it. The points they make and the crticisms they have are the very things Johnson discusses in THE WEDGE OF TRUTH and had the actually read the book, they would have realized that. Unfortunately, they haven't and probably won't. I hope that if you choose to read this book that you will, first, actually read it and second, read it with an open mind.
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Title: The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate by Phillip E. Johnson, Nancy Pearcey ISBN: 0830822941 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830813241 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830813608 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education by Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0830819290 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells, Jody F. Sjogren ISBN: 0895262002 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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