Bernie,
I think it is you who is missing the point about God and Santa: no one who actually understands religion should seriously suggest a close comparison. I'm not surprised that Dawkins does, b/c he doesn't understand religion at all (a fact that doesn't seem to prevent him from writing a great deal about it). However I was nonplussed that Johnson said something similar, since Phil is a serious Christian and has been since the mid-1980s.
Please take a look at the following exchange, to see in context why I was perturbed at Phil Johnson's suggestion.
http://ncseweb.org/rncse/19/4/phillip-johnsons-response-to-edward-davis
http://ncseweb.org/rncse/19/4/edward-davis-replies
The review I wrote, to which Phil was responding, is not available online in its original form, but there is a longer, similar version on my web site at http://home.messiah.edu/~tdavis/gaps.htm
Ted
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