oldmanintheskydidntdoit
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| Quote (Ftk @ Nov. 06 2007,14:56) | Hey a bonus question, what's your take on the Discovery Institute?
That's kind of a silly question. I think the Discovery Institute it great. Though, I do prefer some of ID proponents over others. And, no, I won't be sharing more on that comment. |
Wikipedia gets it right.
| Quote | Although it often describes itself as a secular organization, critics, members of the press and former institute fellows consider the Discovery Institute to be an explicitly conservative Christian organization, and point to the institute's own publications and the statements of its members that endorse a religious ideology. Americans United for Separation of Church and State notes, "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." The 2005 judge in the "Dover Trial", Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, came to a similar conclusion about the Institute in his ruling: "CSRC expressly announces, in the Wedge Document, a program of Christian apologetics to promote ID. A careful review of the Wedge Document's goals and language throughout the document reveals cultural and religious goals, as opposed to scientific ones."
As evidence of the institute's organized campaign to mask or downplay its religious origins and agenda, critics point to the Discovery Institute's renaming of its Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture to Center for Science and Culture in 2002 to avoid religious overtones implied with trying to "renew" society. They claim the name change "followed hard on the heels of accusations that the center's real interest was not science but reforming culture along lines favored by conservative Christians".As further evidence that the institute is promoting a Christian agenda, observers of the institute also point to the fact that the Discovery Institute is largely comprised of outspoken Christian members,who are promoting an explicitly Christian agenda, funded largely by conservative Christians, catering to an almost exclusively Christian constituency. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute
All that money spent and *nothing* to show for it. How's that positive evidence for ID coming FTK?
| Quote | | The CSC offers lucrative fellowships of up to $60,000 a year for "support of significant and original research in the natural sciences, the history and philosophy of science, cognitive science and related fields." Since its founding in 1996, the institute's CSC has spent 39 percent of its $9.3 million on research according to Meyer, underwriting books or papers, or often just paying universities to release professors from some teaching responsibilities so that they can work on intelligent design related scholarship. Over those nine years, $792,585 financed laboratory or field research in biology, paleontology or biophysics, while $93,828 helped graduate students in paleontology, linguistics, history and philosophy. |
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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
FTK
if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand
Gordon Mullings
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I do love all of you, but nobody believes me....so I'll just keep my love hidden away. 
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