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This [origins debate] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.

The subject is not just the theory of evolution, the subject is the reality of God.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.”

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