This page was inspired by Phillip Johnson's book, "Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds".  Early in the book he points out that the media owns the microphone and so what the world at large knows of the question of the age of the earth, origins and evolution is what gets through the media filter.  Mr. Johnson encourages his readers to see the movie, "Inherit The Wind" which is Hollywood's interpretation of the Scopes trial.  The message it conveys is an excellent illustration of the power of the media and the bias that exists in that industry.

This writer has had personal experience with administrators, teachers, school board members, committees and newspapers where the subject of science as it relates to origins is concerned.  Almost every stage of the process was significantly influenced by who owned the microphone.  And where the establishment discovered that they did not have tight control of it, measures were put in place to see that it would not happen again.  The entire experience was very eye opening.

The owners of the microphone do not hesitate to employ the maneuvers described on the Tactics page of this web site and more.  Verifiable facts are ignored, questions are left unanswered, all challenges to evolution are repelled by labeling them religion (even when they are scientific), and so on.  But eventually the truth will win.  Mr. Johnson makes the case that the philosophical corruption of good science is more of a hold over from the last century than a leading indicator of the new.