How do you honor a man who started a groundbreaking movement that challenged the scientific establishment and is changing the way the world thinks about the origins of life?
Phillip Johnson's friends came up with a great way to answer that question. In honor of Phil's many accomplishments, they have commissioned and published a collection of essays, in a book titled Darwin's Nemesis. That's the perfect title, because that's exactly what Phil has become over the past fifteen years. This feisty Berkeley law professor became the unlikely spearhead of the intelligent design movement with the publication of his book Darwin on Trial, in which, from the perspective of a skilled lawyer, he examined and cross-examined Darwinism and found gaping holes. His legal and rhetorical training had convinced him that the Darwinists were acting like people with "something to hide." Indeed, they are...