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Donald E. Johnson is a vocal creationist and author, who
runs the creationist website scienceintegrity.org. He is a signatory to the
Discovery Institute’s petition “A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism”,
and has legitimate credentials in Information Sciences and in chemistry (though
nothing that touches on evolution), but is nevertheless not a working
scientist.
His books include Probability's
Nature and Nature's Probability, which also exists in a version for
non-specialists for outreach purposes – after all creationism is not
particularly concerned with science as much as outreach – and Programming for Life. The latter
purports to study the intersection of physical science and information science
with creationist conclusions, complete with persecution complex concerning the oppressive Darwinian paradigm in research institutions. Indeed,
it argues that since no one can disprove the existence of God, Intelligent
Design as a theory does not need evidence,
and that evolution remains falsified as long as there are gaps in the fossil
record.
Standard creationist lack of understanding of science, in other words.
Diagnosis: In one sense Johnson is standard fare, and his
influence – even within denialist communities – is probably somewhat limited.
He is nevertheless worth mentioning for the way he inadvertently manages to
reveal why Intelligent Design is not science through his writings, and for
exposing his own agenda (outreach in the name of Jesus; it has nothing to do
with science).
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