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	Intelligent design: The God Lab - opinion - 15 December 2006 - New Scientist
		In a Discovery Institute strategy paper that was leaked on the internet in 1999, Axe is identified as heading up a molecular biology programme that has the aim of undercutting the scientific basis for evolution.
		At that time he was funded by the Discovery Institute and working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Protein Engineering, a research centre in Cambridge, UK, funded by the Medical Research Council, under the supervision of protein specialist Alan Fersht of the University of Cambridge.
		His work there, again funded by the Discovery Institute, led to the publication of a second paper in 2004 (Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 341, p 1295) that was again cited by ID proponents as evidence in its favour.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/opinion/mg19225824.000-intelligent-design-the-god-lab.html (2243 words)

	Discovery Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The institute has been at the center of a number of controversies regarding its role in the intelligent design movement and what critics and the media allege is a hidden religious agenda.
		The Discovery Institute was founded in 1990 as a non-profit educational foundation and think tank based upon the Christian apologetics of C.S. Lewis.
		The Discovery Institute has been a significant player in many of these cases, through the CSC providing a range of support from material assistance to federal, state and regional elected representatives in the drafting of bills to supporting and advising individual parents confronting their school boards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discovery_Institute (4077 words)

	Evolution News & Views: The Truth About Discovery Institute's Role in the Dover Intelligent Design and Evolution ...
		Discovery Institute repeatedly advised the Dover School Board and Thomas More that the board's intelligent design policy enacted in the fall of 2004 was problematic and should be replaced.
		Thompson cited Discovery Institute's legal materials in support of the Dover board in his communication with Discovery Institute representatives in November of 2004, he was told that he was misapplying those materials.
		Discovery Institute continues to believe that teaching about intelligent design is constitutional when appropriately framed, and that the ACLU lawsuit against Dover is little more than an effort at censorship.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2005/11/the_truth_about_discovery_inst.html (1467 words)

	Evolution News & Views: Discovery Institute Becoming One of the Most Cited Think Tanks In The Country
		Discovery, founded in 1990, is a non-partisan public policy center specializing in issues surrounding transportation, technology, and the scientific theory of intelligent design.
		Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman pointed out that the liberal FAIR classified some think tanks –including Discovery Institute—as conservative, but did not classify any as liberal, but rather described them as either centrist, progressive or center-left.
		Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture has more than 40 affiliated biologists, biochemists, physicists, philosophers and historians of science, and public policy and legal experts, most of whom also have positions with colleges and universities.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2006/06/discovery_institute_becoming_o.html (726 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Seattle's Discovery Institute scrambling to rebound after intelligent-design ruling
		Discovery Institute scientists say, for example, that the genetic code embedded in DNA is so complicated it couldn't possibly be the result of natural selection.
		The Discovery Institute says intelligent design is different in that it uses science to argue that some kind of unidentified designer must have been at work.
		Ross said the Discovery Institute is hampered by its attempt to walk a middle ground between evolution and creationism.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002953668_id26m.html (1751 words)

	discovery institute's hidden religious agenda
		In all of its court documents and arguments, the Discovery Institute goes to great lengths to claim that it is only interested in science, and has no ulterior religious motives, aims or purpose, and emphatically is NOT out to advance any religious opinions.
		The document outlined the Discovery Institute's longterm plan to, as it states, produce a "broadly theistic understanding of nature" (Discovery institute, The Wedge Document, 1999), and its tactic of using the evolution "controversy" as a "wedge" to do this.
		Intelligent designer "theory" is, as the Discovery Institute admitted from the beginnning in its own internal documents, a legal and political strategy to "wedge" their religious opinions into public schools.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/diagenda.html (2817 words)

	ANALYSIS: Discovery Institute explains intelligent design
		Although the Discovery Institute does not advocate requiring the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, it does believe there is nothing unconstitutional about discussing the scientific theory of design in the classroom.
		The non-profit, non-partisan Discovery Institute is a policy and research organization, or secular think tank, with programs on a variety of issues, including regional transportation development, economics and technology policy, legal reform, bioethics, science and culture.
		Although it is not a religious organization, the institute has a long record of supporting religious liberty and the legitimate role of faith-based institutions in a pluralistic society.
	www.floridabaptistwitness.com /3760.article (1281 words)

	Red State Rabble: Discovery Institute to "Defend Science" in Kansas
		In fact, Michael Behe a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute recently testified in court that the intelligent design movement's proposed re-definition of science would transform astrology from a cheap parlor trick to one of the sciences right there alongside biology, physics, and chemistry.
		In 2005, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute issued a report noting that "Science education in America is under attack, with 'discovery learning' on one flank and the Discovery Institute on the other." Fordham's report on Kansas said, "Kansas has adopted standards whose treatment of evolutionary material has been radically compromised.
		Discovery is coming to Kansas because they see clearly just how critical a victory in the upcoming school board election is for their movement.
	redstaterabble.blogspot.com /2006/07/discovery-institute-to-defend-science.html (945 words)

	Discovery Institute True Goals and Financial Supporters
		Discovery Institute adviser Phillip Johnson, arguably the nation's best-known anti-evolutionist, dedicated his 1997 book, "Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds," to "Howard and Roberta." Johnson said his relationship with Discovery is limited.
		The Discovery Institute and fellow creationists say they don't want to eliminate evolution from textbooks either, but that by including their theories, which supposedly prove evolution's flaws, students can think critically about the origins of life.
		The institute has tried hard to publicly extricate itself from creationists and social conservatives who have besieged textbook hearings since the 1980s, most of whom believe that evolution is incompatible with a literal reading of the Book of Genesis in the Bible and that Earth is no more than 10,000 years old.
	www.texscience.org /files/discovery.htm (5095 words)

	NCSE Resource (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NCSE concludes that the only purpose of the Discovery Institute's Bibliography is to mislead members of the Board and of the public about the status of evolution.
		As the preceding discussion indicates, the Discovery Institute's view of the significance of the publications in its Bibliography was uniformly rejected by the authors themselves.
		The preceding sections have already amply demonstrated that the Discovery Institute's interpretation of the publications in the Bibliography is tendentious and that its understanding of the publications is unreliable.
	www.ncseweb.org /resources/articles/3878_analysis_of_the_discovery_inst_4_5_2002.asp (5808 words)

	Wedge strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson's statements validate the criticisms leveled by those who allege that the Discovery Institute and its allied organizations are merely stripping religious content from their anti-evolution, creationist assertions as a means of avoiding First Amendment prohibitions on the teaching of creationism.
		The Discovery Institute is currently carrying out the strategy through its role in the intelligent design movement, where it aggressively promotes ID and its Teach the Controversy campaign to the public, education officials and public policymakers.
		The Discovery Institute has been a significant player in many of these cases, providing a range of support from material assistance to federal, state and regional elected representatives in the drafting of bills to supporting and advising individual parents confronting their school boards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wedge_strategy (4599 words)

	Northwest Progressive Institute: Discovery Institute's Attack on Evolution
		But Discovery's true goal is to see the fulfillment of a strategy it designed to slowly question and then destroy evolution.
		To promote the concept, the Institute works with 48 fellows, directors and advisors who are responsible for producing research, publishing texts and hosting conferences.
		Discovery sees evolution as an evil truth that must be weeded out from educational curriculum.
	nwprogressive.org /weblog/2005/05/discovery-institutes-attack-on.html (1105 words)

	Americans United: The Discovery Institute
		Institute representatives are well aware of legal restrictions on religion in public schools, so they rarely use theological criticisms of evolution in their work.
		Two years ago, at a National Religious Broadcasters meeting, the Discovery Institute's Dembski framed the ID movement in the context of Christian apologetics, a theological defense of the authority of Christianity.
		Though the Discovery Institute describes itself as a think tank "specializing in national and international affairs," the group's real purpose is to undercut church-state separation and turn public schools into religious indoctrination centers.
	www.au.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5582&abbr=cs_ (768 words)

	Intelligent donation? - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Due to the Discovery Institute, I.D. is popping up in school districts all over the country, fueling a renewed controversy over evolution that has even made its way into national politics.
		Discovery's lecture series focused on "technology and how it fits into public policy," areas that are in line with Verizon's goals.
		Martin is a member of the Discovery Board in his individual capacity and does not represent the Microsoft Corporation.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/08/26/gatesfoundation/print.html (1228 words)

	Discovery Institute - Blogs
		Please note that the views expressed on these blogs are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of Discovery Institute as a whole.
		"Discovery Blog" is the Internet home to Discovery Institute general interests, especially those not covered by other blogs.
		Discovery President Bruce Chapman is the lead, but not sole, author of discoveryblog.org.
	www.discovery.org /blogs.php (417 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Institute has little love for Darwin
		After toiling in obscurity for nearly a decade, the institute's Center for Science and Culture has emerged in recent months as the ideological and strategic backbone behind the eruption of skirmishes over science in school districts and state capitals across the country.
		For the institute's president, Bruce K. Chapman, intelligent design appealed to his contrarian, futuristic sensibilities — and attracted wealthy, religious philanthropists like Howard and Roberta Ahmanson at a time when his organization was surviving on a shoestring.
		That, according to institute officials, is what happened in 1999, when a new conservative majority on the Kansas Board of Education shocked the nation by dropping all references to evolution from the state's science standards.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600157733,00.html (1658 words)

	Reason Magazine - Christian Science (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Proponents like Stephen Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, claim that "the theory of intelligent design holds that there are tell-tale features of living systems and the universe that are best explained by an intelligent cause." In other words, life is too complex to have developed through purely natural causes.
		Meanwhile, the Discovery Institute, the chief promoter of the ID movement, claims to have been dismayed by the Dover School Board's activities.
		This was made plain in the Institute's now notorious "wedge strategy" in which the Institute explained that it planned to forge ID into a "wedge" to cut down the "giant tree" of scientific materialism.
	www.reason.com /news/show/35009.html (755 words)

	News: Discovery's Creation (Seattle Weekly)
		Intelligent-design proponents argue that pointing out Darwin's ideological and evidential feet of clay is only part of the larger mission to open the scientific discourse to evidence and viewpoints supressed by the establishment.
		"Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its damning cultural legacies," he wrote.
		By last year, Seattle's DI and the center were internationally known as the world's most respectable and most talked-about and quoted resource for the new brand of "science" called intelligent design.
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0605/discovery-darwin.php (1883 words)

	Pharyngula::Microsoft and the Discovery Institute
		The Discovery Institute is also the national leader in the push to get non-scientific topics introduced into the nation's science classrooms.
		By giving the institute millions of dollars and paying nearly half the the president's salary, the Bill and Melinda Foundation is, in my mind, helping to erode the quality of science education in America's classrooms.
		In particular, the Discovery Institute (DI) is said to be receiving nearly one quarter of all of their funds from the Gates Foundation.
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/microsoft_and_the_discovery_institute (2921 words)

	Discovery Institute: So-called 'Evolution vs. Creation' Issue Banned [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Discovery Institute, headquartered in Seattle, WA, includes scientists in its Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture who write on scientific issues.
		Discovery Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy think tank headquartered in Seattle and dealing with national and international affairs.
		The important thing is the fact that an actual breakthrough leads to the discovery of a whole truth, as opposed to a partial one.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ede5d333f3.htm (2653 words)

	Minnesota's Opportunity to Improve Teaching of Evolution and Avoid Extremes Should Not Be Missed, Says Discovery ...
		The Institute is the nation's leading think-tank dealing with challenges to Darwinian evolution and science education standards.
		Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture is the nation's leading think tank and research center dealing with challenges to Darwinian evolution and science education standards.
		Discovery Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy, think tank which promotes ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government, the free market and individual liberty.
	www.edwatch.org /updates/012304.htm (863 words)

	Charity Navigator Rating - Discovery Institute
		The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
		Discovery Institute's mission is to make a positive vision of the future practical.
		The Institute discovers and promotes ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government, the free market and individual liberty.
	www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/9757.htm (193 words)

	Discovery Institute's "Wedge project" Circulates Online
		Its mission is "to replace materialism and its destructive cultural legacies with a positive scientific alternative." The Discovery Institute hopes that intelligent design will be the usurper that finally dethrones the theory of evolution.
		He didn't know where his discovery would lead, but rather he understood that the pure pursuit of knowledge was an end in itself.
		This anecdote is typical of all scientific research from Aristotle's initial forays into zoology, to Galileo's observational astronomy, and most dramatically in the twentieth-century, to the discovery and use of penicillin.
	www.infidels.org /secular_web/feature/1999/wedge.html (2157 words)

	Discovery Institute Press Release on Cobb County Case \| Uncommon Descent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a unanimous decision the federal three-judge panel –including both Democratic and Republican appointees— stopped short of deciding the constitutionality of the stickers, and instead sent the case back to the trial court judge with instructions to hold more evidentiary hearings on the issue.
		Discovery Institute believes that school districts should have the right to require science teachers to inform students about both scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution.
		The Institute does not favor the mandatory inclusion of alternative scientific theories, such as intelligent design, and also does not favor the use of disclaimers, but instead recommends that school districts require teaching critical analysis of evolution.
	www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/1162 (752 words)

	Diversity and Discovery Institute, 2000
		Science came from a textbook with very little experimentation or discovery because all of the answers were written on paper, you just needed to read and understand them.
		Science is a wonderful discovery; however, most students from the inner city do not have the opportunity to experience the experiments the textbooks suggest.
		It's imperative that we educators are encouraged to attend Workshops, Seminars and Institutes such as the ones we are presently attending in Bryn Mawr in order to update ourselves on how to develop lesson plans that integrate all discplines (cut across curriculum).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/suminst/ddi00/dd00science.html (3588 words)

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