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Phillip Johnson, law professor emeritus of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, is widely recognized as the godfather of the contemporary intelligent design (ID) movement. As the author of several books and numerous articles explaining scientific, legal, and cultural dimension of the debate over ID and Darwinism, Johnson was one of the most prolific authors in the formative years of the movement.

It was Johnson’s 1991 book Darwin on Trial that first convinced many thinkers that neo-Darwinian evolution was buttressed more by a philosophy of naturalism than by the scientific evidence. Johnson’s influential writing became the magnet of scholars from a variety of fields—biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy, theology, and law—to forge the intelligent design movement.
Casey Luskin, “The Significance of Phillip Johnson” at Darwin on Trial

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Remember him from law school, he was kind of grouchy in those days (pre-Christian I suspect). He supposedly became a Christian after attending First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley (where I went), and I know he wasn’t going there yet when I was in law school. Before you pooh-pooh Berkeley too much, I was amazed to find when I first went there that there were a ton of Christians in Berkeley, both in the University and outside. And First Pres had some great pastors, including Dr. Munger who wrote the famous tract, “My Heart Christ’s Home.”