This [origins debate] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy. - Phillip E. Johnson

Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.

The subject is not just the theory of evolution, the subject is the reality of God.

If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. … We call our strategy the "wedge."