From Dayton to Dover: Phillip E. Johnson's Academic Freedom.
This essay considers Phillip E. Johnson's "Wedge Strategy" for Intelligent Design (ID) advocacy, assessing his contribution to an eighty-year history of public education controversy. Starting with the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and culminating in the 2005 case of Kitzmiller v. Dover in...
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