Can You Say Hidden Agenda?
by Jason MillerAugust 6, 2006 at 21:17:33
The Discovery Institute’s True Raison d’être and Why We Need to Be Deeply Concerned
Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank which champions socially conservative causes, has become heavily invested in the “debate” between Darwinists and those who wish to introduce Intelligent Design into public school classrooms.
According to their Website, Discovery’s stated 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.”
Finding a handful of academics willing to act as its shills, Discovery’s ultimate goal is to subvert the prevailing paradigm of modern science (which they refer to as “materialism”) and replace it “with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions”.
In an internal document called the Wedge (click the link or continue reading this piece to view the Wedge Strategy in its entirety) which was uncovered in 1999, Discovery was highly specific in stating its goals and plans to accomplish them. The institute clearly indicates that Intelligent Design will be their principal weapon and Evolution their primary target in its onslaught against “materialism”.
Jason Miller discovers the Wedge Document — Can you say out of touch and behind the times?
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