# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phillip-e-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:13:36.192Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/phillip-e-johnson"
name: "Phillip E. Johnson"
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description: "Phillip E. Johnson was an American legal scholar and authority on criminal law who was the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) at the Discovery Institute and was one of the leaders of the intelligent design movement, along with William Dembski and Michael Behe. Johnson described himself as \"in a sense the father of the intelligent design movement\"."
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birthDate: "1940-06-18"
deathDate: "2019-11-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump