No, their agenda is to evangelize Christianity through subversion of modern science. They admit it. Any actual science is only a small part, the rest revolves around non-scientific PR and government work. Don't forget, the Discovery Institute was part of the Kitzmiller case from the beginning, but tried to pull out once they saw they were going to lose.
RE: No, their agenda is to evangelize Christianity through subversion of modern science.
Actually, I kinda like the Wedge document.
And you don’t have to be a Christian to appreciate what it plans to do. Jews, Muslims, Theists or even Buddhists can appreciate its goals.
Also, it isn’t as if the Discovery Institute is hiding its agenda or something, They’re pretty upfront about it.
My favorite part is where it says that the goal is to bring together “leading scholars from the natural sciences and those from the humanities and social sciences, the Center explores how new developments in biology, physics and cognitive science raise serious doubts about scientific materialism and have re-opened the case for a broadly theistic understanding of nature.”
I think desiring to look at how new developments raise doubt on the materialistic paradigm is a goal worth acheiving.
Nowhere does this imply concocting developments or distorting them. What’s so wrong with this goal? Am I missing something?
I fail to see how any result of the Kitzmiller case could “subvert” something s broad as “modern science.” We are, after all, talking about the opinion of a judge and jury on a matter of which they have small knowledge. The case in point was the right of a school board to prescribe what is taught. Schoolboards have done far more to subvert science by choosing to hire teachers who know more about football than chemistry and yet have installed them in chemistry labs.