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	Science Fair Projects - Wedge strategy
		The Wedge strategy is a political action treatise that was included in fundraising materials for the Discovery Institute, an organization that, as part of its many activities, hopes to promote Intelligent Design as an alternative to scientific naturalism, materialism and Darwinism (macroevolution through purely materialistic mechanisms).
		The strategy outlines a future public relations campaign meant to sway the opinion of the public, popular media, funding agencies, and the scientific community in order that they should effect an "overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies".
		The Wedge Strategy recieved attention from groups opposed to the Intelligent Design movements as the document appears to advocate a particularly strident strategy for promoting a wide-range of politically conservative ideas that seemed unrelated to the question of science.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Wedge_strategy (712 words)

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		The Wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, an organization that works to promote a broad agenda centering around intelligent design, and hub of the intelligent design movement.
		Wedge strategy proponents are dogmatically opposed to materialism, naturalism, and evolution, and have made the removal of each from how science is conducted and taught an explicit goal.
		As stated in the Wedge Document [2], the strategy is designed to defeat "Darwinism" and to promote an idea of science "consonant with Christian and theistic convictions." The ultimate goal of the Wedge strategy is to "renew" American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian values.
	www.newsfollowup.com /docs/di_wedge.doc (1875 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force.
		Wedge sum, in mathematics a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces.
		Wedge issue, a divisive issue used to split the support base of an opposing political group.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=wedge (275 words)

	Wedge strategy
		The strategy outlines a public relations campaign meant to sway the opinion of the public, popular media, funding agencies, and the scientific community in order that they should effect an "overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies".
		Johnson framed these alliances as a 'wedge strategy,' with himself as lead blocker and ID scientists carrying the ball behind him."[8] In 1993, a year after the SMU conference, "the Johnson-Behe cadre of scholars met at Pajaro Dunes....
		The Wedge Strategy received attention from groups opposed to the Intelligent Design movements as the document appears to advocate a particularly strident strategy for promoting a wide-range of politically conservative ideas that seemed unrelated to the question of science.
	encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /articles/wedge_strategy.html (1379 words)

	Wedge strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, an organization that is criticized for promoting a Neo-Creationist agenda centering on intelligent design, and is the hub of the intelligent design movement.
		The preamble of the Wedge Document [3] is mirrored largely word-for-word in the early mission statement of the Center for Science and Culture, then called the "Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture." [4].
		The wedge strategy received attention from groups opposed to the Intelligent Design movements as the document appears to advocate a particularly strident strategy for promoting a wide-range of politically conservative ideas that seem unrelated to the question of science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wedge_strategy (4685 words)

	The Wedge: What Happens When Science Is Taken Over by Ideology? by Massimo Pigliucci
		He calls it the "Wedge" strategy, the idea being that there is a natural crack in the edifice of science and that evolution-deniers and other anti-intellectuals only need to widen the initial interstice to eventually bring down the whole evil tree of knowledge.
		The Wedge strategy document starts out with predictable rhetoric to the effect that belief in a personal God has been the bedrock of Western civilization, implying that if people should abandon such belief the end of the world would surely follow shortly thereafter.
		Most interestingly, the third phase of the Wedge is entitled "cultural confrontation," something that immediately conjures up images of religious wars, and for a good reason: the underlying idea is essentially to turn the United States from a democratic republic into a theocracy dominated by conservative Christian groupthink.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jul01/thewedge.htm (1115 words)

	Wedge strategy - Information from Reference.com
		The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement.
		The Wedge Document outlines a public relations campaign meant to sway the opinion of the public, popular media, charitable funding agencies, and public policy makers.
		The wedge strategy details a simultaneous assault on state boards of education, state and federal legislatures and on the print and broadcast media.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Wedge+strategy (2303 words)

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		chiefly by means of the wedge strategy, seeks to establish that life...
		Wedge: A wedge is a simple machine used to push two objects apart.
	www.searchmaze.com /search.html?q=wedge (225 words)

	Print Article: Drugs stance may be the wedge of Brogden's dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
		The Coalition's tactic of taking a hard line on the Greens' "soft" approach on drugs policy could have a significant impact on voting patterns in a dozen or more marginal seats, including six held by Labor or independents where there was a high One Nation and significant Greens vote at the last election.
		The strategy behind the revitalised Coalition campaign is a combination of reclaiming the party's primary vote, which was severely damaged in the One Nation surge of 1999, and a ploy to unsettle the preference flow between Labor and the Greens.
		Our whole strategy is to show the voting public that Bob Carr is trying to con them into believing that he is strong on crime and drugs policy and yet he still plays footsie with the Greens."
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/03/05/1046826438439.html (511 words)

	L5 News: How to Prevent Strikes and Revolts in Space
		For space-workers, the wedge will be enormous compared to that of American earth-based workers because it will include the high cost of maintaining the worker in space.
		Further assume that for earthworkers, the wedge is equal to zero; and for space-workers, that it is very large compared to the wage of an average worker.
		Because the "wedge" drives up the value of skilled workers, the use of relatively unproductive strike breakers will be more costly than in most industries.
	www.nss.org /settlement/L5news/1980-strikes.htm (1844 words)

	IHS :: HNN :: The importance of "wedge" issues for humanists
		Conservative candidates have used this emotionally charged issue to drive a wedge between the moderate voter, who happens to view gay marriage with disfavor, and the opposing candidate with a liberal position on the gay marriage issue.
		From a standpoint of strategy, these "swing voters" must be seen as crucial to the growth of humanism.
		After all, wedge strategy by definition seeks to sway a middle group (here, Group 2) away from one side (here, Group 1) and towards the other (here, the humanists in Group 3).
	www.humaniststudies.org /enews/?id=165&article=4&print=yes (1393 words)

	Americans United: Intelligent Design: Creationism's Trojan Horse
		The Wedge strategy is the intelligent design movement’s tactical plan for promoting intelligent design (ID) creationism as an alternative to evolutionary theory in the American cultural mainstream and public school science classes.
		According to the Wedge Document, the strategy is designed to defeat “Darwinism” and to promote an idea of science “consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.” The ultimate goal of the Wedge strategy is to “renew” American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian values.
		The intelligent design creationists who are executing this strategy collectively refer to themselves as “the Wedge.” Phillip Johnson, the architect of the strategy and the group’s de facto leader, invokes the metaphor of a wood-splitting wedge to illustrate his goal of splitting apart the concepts of science and naturalism.
	www.au.org /site/PageServer?pagename=cs_2005_02_special (5221 words)

	Proposed science standards flawed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
		In the mid-1990s, the creationist author and law professor Phillip Johnson explained what he called a "wedge strategy" to bring God back into the classroom: "My idea is to clear a space by legitimizing the issue, by exhausting the other side, by using up all their ridicule."
		Part of this strategy is to avoid explicit mention of religion, but to focus on attacking the "materialism" associated with mainstream science in general, and evolution in particular.
		Of course, if this "wedge" remains in the standards, there remains one more option open to citizens of Ohio who wish to ensure the best possible education for their children.
	www.phys.cwru.edu /~krauss/scistandards2.html (812 words)

	Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 6, PM: Barbara Forrest
		It's a strategy to avoid alienating young earth creationists, to convince them to join in the intelligent design movement, and to agree to put off discussion of what they consider devicive issues, such as the interpretation of the Book of Genesis, and to knight around the effort of the intelligent design movement.
		This is the first page of the Wedge Strategy, and this is the opening paragraph of it.
		The very beginning of this strategy, the thin end of the Wedge was Phillip Johnson's critique of Darwinism begun in 1991 and Darwinism on Trial and continued in Reason in the Balance and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/dover/day6pm.html (8175 words)

	GOLFONLINE, From the Editors of GOLF MAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
		A full wedge produces more backspin and a better chance of stopping the ball near the pin, so play your drive accordingly.
		The same strategy applies to par threes: Pick out the safest place to miss the green, then club yourself accordingly.
		For example, if the pin is in the back of the green and there's trouble beyond, don't feed your ego by trying to launch it at the pin -- especially if you're hitting a long iron, which may not stop on a dime.
	www.golfonline.com /golfonline/instruction/privatelessons/strategy/0,18337,91_11_ph,00.html (477 words)

	Xbox.com \| Scott McGough - Gladiator Golf
		This is an effective strategy (especially against me—I can’t chip for beans, even with the right club), but I think it’s too easy to get around a missing short iron.
		The pitching wedge, sand wedge, and 9-iron are all versatile enough to cover for each other in a pinch, if the golfer knows how to adjust his stance, swing with precision and power, and choose the right kind of shot.
		I wouldn’t tell you not to recover the lynchpin to your whole golfing strategy (you wouldn’t listen if I did), but I prefer to play that once a club is gone, it’s gone for the rest of the round.
	www.xbox.com /en-US/games/t/tigerwoods2005/20041014-tigerwoods.htm (799 words)

	Wedge document - EvoWiki
		The Wedge document is authored by members of the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute.
		The very beginning of this strategy, the "thin edge of the wedge," was Phillip Johnson's critique of Darwinism begun in 1991 in Darwinism on Trial [sic!], and continued in Reason in the Balance and Defeatng Darwinism by Opening Minds [sic!].
		In this one section ("Governing Goals"), the Discovery Institute expressly states that the total destruction of science is part of its "Wedge Strategy." As a minimum, the scientific method absolutely requires adherence to methodological naturalism by its practitioners.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Wedge_document (2591 words)

	The ID Report - Defending the Wedge
		Wedge advocates are becoming increasingly more convinced that the emerging biochemical and cosmological facts implicate the involvement of intelligence in the natural world.
		The intent of Wedge supporters is to split apart two arguments often used in tandem to dissuade people from the consideration of design hypotheses.
		In light of this situation, Wedge advocates are simply attempting to reopen the public forum on the presence of design in nature - a forum which has been prematurely shut down by faulty Darwinist rhetoric.
	www.arn.org /blogs/index.php/2/2004/02/23/defending_the_wedge (1226 words)

	Touchstone Archives: The Wedge
		Now that several years have passed and a new century is almost upon us, it is time to review how the Wedge has grown and progressed, to evaluate how far we have come, and to forecast what we expect to accomplish in the next decade.
		The metaphor of the Wedge portrays the modernist scientific and intellectual world, with its materialist assumptions, as a thick and seemingly impenetrable log.
		Wedge members Paul Nelson and Jonathan Wells have shown this by describing the dissimilarity of supposed evolutionary cousins at the earlier embryonic stages, and by reviewing the literature describing attempts by biologists to change the direction of embryonic development by inducing mutations in the DNA.
	touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=12-04-018-f (5611 words)

	The Wedge - A Progress Report
		The first was to legitimate the topic of intelligent design, and hence the critique of Darwinism and its basis in naturalistic philosophy, within the mainstream intellectual community.
		There is plenty of difficult (and fascinating) work ahead, but the Wedge is lodged securely in the crack.
		The initial goals of the Wedge strategy have been accomplished.
	www.tccsa.tc /articles/wedge.html (875 words)

	New wedge, same strategy for Never Compromise - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
		The same materials that go into the putters are in the wedge, but what those materials are exactly is a state secret, known only to the key players within Never Compromise.
		Aside from the finish, the wedge's performance hinges on a design feature many pros had to hand grind into their wedges to get a more dynamic wedge.
		Pond designed the wedge to appeal to better players, and he expects some PGA TOUR players to have it in their bags next season.
	www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,4301110,00.html (799 words)

	The Wedge at Work
		The Wedge consists of a tightly knit core of people at DI's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture who have worked together for almost a decade to advance the wedge strategy; the same people are always active in the CRSC's major events.
		Such elaborations were stated in a CRSC strategy document which has come to be known informally as the "Wedge Document."[30] It surfaced anonymously and was posted on the Internet in March 1999; various aspects of the document indicate that it was written in 1998.
		The wedge strategy crystallized at the "Mere Creation" conference at Biola University in 1996, a conference which, according to CRSC fellow Ray Bohlin, constituted "the backbone of the future direction of the fledgling intelligent design movement."[81] CRSC fellows also attend many conferences held by others--in short, conferencing is a full-time concern for the wedge.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/barbara_forrest/wedge.html (13957 words)

	Manningham City Council - Publications - Policies and Strategies - Green Wedge Strategy
		On the 30 November, 2004 Council reinforced its long-held commitment to conserving its non-urban areas by adopting the Green Wedge Strategy.
		The Green Wedge Strategy is a guide for the strategic planning, use and management of the non-urban area of the City of Manningham.
		Through this strategy Council aims to build on the strength of these initiatives, as well as develop new and exciting projects.
	www.manningham.vic.gov.au /CA256D26001ED423/page/Publications-Policies+and+Strategies-Green+Wedge+Strategy?OpenDocument&1=50-Publications~&2=50-Policies+and+Strategies~&3=22-Green+Wedge+Strategy~ (158 words)

	Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore
		About three years ago, I reported on the "Wedge Strategy," a position paper authored by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute that described a sophisticated public relations campaign to sell intelligent design in the marketplace of ideas.
		(See "Discovery Institute's 'Wedge Project' Circulates Online".) The Wedge Strategy outlined a three-phase plan, the first two of which were to occur between 1999 and 2003, involving the wholesale marketing of the concept of intelligent design in order to shape public opinion favorably toward it.
		According to the Wedge Strategy position paper "Phase I is the essential component of everything that comes afterward.
	www.secweb.org /asset.asp?AssetID=200 (958 words)

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