Product Description: This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code...read more

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Phillip E., Cloud, Morgan

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A 2001 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner! Science is the supreme authority in our culture. If there is a dispute, science arbitrates it. If a law is to be passed, science must ratify it. If truth is to be taught, science must approve it. And when science is ignored, stroms of protest are heard in the media, in the university--even in local coffee shops. Yet a society ruled by science (and the naturalistic philosophy that undergirds much of it) faces major problems. Science speaks so authoritatively in our culture that many are tempted to use its clout to back claims that go beyond the available evidence. How can we spot when such ideological slight of hand has taken place? More important, while we may learn a great deal from science, it does not offer us unlimited knowledge. In fact, most scientists readily acknowledge that science cannot provide answers to questions of ultimate purpose or meaning. So to what authority will we turn for these? The deficiencies in science and the philosophy (naturalism) that undergirds it call for a cognitive revolution--a fundamental change in our thinking habits. And it all begins with a wedge of truth. This wedge of truth does not "wedge out" a necessary foundation of rational thought. But it does "wedge in" the much-needed acknowledgment that reason encompasses more than mere scientific investigation. Phillip E. Johnson argues compellingly for an understanding of reason that brings scientific certainty back into relational balance with philosophical inquiry and religious faith. Applying his wedge of truth, Johnson analyzes the latest debates between science and religion played out in our media, our universities and society-at-large. He looks to thinkers such as Newbigin, Polanyi and Pascal to lay a foundation for our seeing the universe in a totally different way. And from that base he then considers the educational programs and research agendas that should be undertaken--and have already begun in some earnest--during this new century. In the end, Johnson prophetically concludes that the walls of naturalism will fall and that the Christian gospel must play a vital role in building a new foundation fro thinking--not just about science and religion but about everyhting that gives human life hopeand meaning.

Product Description: This work is a carefully edited, student-friendly law school casebook that presents the substance of judicial reasoning. Students are given as much as they need and no more: background information from secondary stories has been added when necessary for clarity; superfluous facts have been omitted; and most citations and footnotes have been removed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

These essays by the author of "Darwin on Trial, Reason in the Balance", and "Defeating Darwinsim by Opening Minds" cover a wide range of topics, including evolution, law, and culture. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Prepared by Reporters and the senior staff attorney for the Louisiana State Law Institute's Evidence Code Project. Authors' Notes explain the Code and give special attention to problematic areas of law. Other sections include: Related Statutes, involving evidence issues; detailed index to the Code and other evidence statutes; specialized indexes relating to presumptions, prima facie evidence and burden of proof; and an appendix that compares and contrasts the Louisiana Evidence Code with the Federal Rules of Evidence...read more

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Argues that the ideas of naturalism dominate modern intellectual life while theism is often considered irrational, and discusses how these ideas affect current controversies in ethics and public policy

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Product Description: Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson looks at the scientific evidence for and against Darwinistic evolution. 5 cassettes.