{"id":3964,"date":"2008-01-23T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/quote-of-the-day-phillip-johnson\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:27:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-phillip-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/quote-of-the-day-phillip-johnson.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Phillip Johnson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cI also don\u2019t think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that\u2019s comparable. Working out a positive theory is the job of the scientific people that we have affiliated with the movement. Some of them are quite convinced that it\u2019s doable, but that\u2019s for them to prove\u2026No product is ready for competition in the educational world\u201d<\/span> (Phillip Johnson, interview quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/florida-updates.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Berkeley Science Review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/florida-updates.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3286450441636393341?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI also don\u2019t think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that\u2019s comparable. 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