Philip E Johnson is a retired Professor of Law from Berkley (University of California). He is one of the more eloquent of the creationists, one of the most slippery, and one of the most extreme.
I believe he has argued against HIV as being the cause of AIDS, suggesting instead it is a consequence of the lifestyle of homosexuals and drug users and a reflection of the anger of God.
The best deconstruction of his arguments (and creationism in general) that I have seen is by philosopher Rober T. Pennock in
The Tower of Babel.
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It is pointless discussing the views of a person whose beliefs are based on religious teachings, rather than scientific evidence. They are what they are.
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According to wikipedia he
received an epiphany after he purchased and read Richard Dawkin's The Blind Watchmaker and Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.
If this account is accurate, we can lay the blame for the birth of the Intelligent Design movement - of which Johnson is the father - at the door of Dawkins, for his overbearing, dogmatic style.
