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Phillip E. Johnson<\/a>\u2014not to be confused with the Pyromaniac\u2014said the following yesterday at The Royal Institute of Philosophy:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c. . . my personal view is that I identify the designer of life with the God of the Bible, although intelligent design theory as such does not entail that. <\/a> Scientific materialists fiercely resist consideration of the existence of a designer of what we see in nature, in part because they fear that even the most minimalist version of a deity will tend to become understood as something like the God of the Bible, who communicates with humans and cares about how we behave. Perhaps that fear is justified, but so what? That the cosmos is ruled by a God who cares about us is a possibility we ought to be considering, rather than a forbidden idea from which we ought to flee.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Phillip E. Johnson, Think<\/em>\u00a0 (The Royal Institute of Philosophy) \u00a0February 19, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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