Johnson has stated in an interview that he believed " the strength of America is not in its towers or in its battleships , it 's in its faith . Of course , I said that , but I was n't sure it was really true anymore . This is n't the same country we were in the previous decades . " Johnson said the U.S. was " cringing in fear " of Muslim terrorists after September 11 attacks and that professors were afraid to discuss it " because they 're afraid of what the Muslim students will do . They 're afraid it wo n't keep the peace on campus . I never thought our country would descend to this level . We are afraid to search the truth and to proclaim it . We once knew who the true God was and were able to proclaim it frankly . But since about 1960 we 've been hiding from that . We 've been trying to pretend that all religions are the same . " Johnson is best known as one of the founders of the intelligent design movement , principal architect of the wedge strategy , author of the Santorum Amendment , and one of the ID movement 's most prolific authors . Johnson is co-founder and program advisor of the Discovery Institute 's Center for Science and Culture . Johnson has advocated strongly in the public and political spheres for the teaching of intelligent design as preferable to the teaching of evolution , which Johnson characterizes as " atheistic " and " falsified by all of the evidence " and whose " logic is terrible . " In portraying the philosophy of science , and by extension its theories such as evolution as atheistic , Johnson argues that a more valid alternative is " theistic realism . " Theistic realism asserts that science , by relying upon methodological naturalism , demands an '' a priori '' adoption of a naturalistic philosophy that wrongly dismisses out of hand any explanation that contains a supernatural cause
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Phillip E. Johnson