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?
Did you miss the PR campaign part of it? It's not about science, it's about a religious movement. Note "teach the controversy." There was no scientific controversy over natural selection in general before, but through PR they created the perception of one, then tell people it should be taught.
Also, it isn’t as if the Discovery Institute is hiding its agenda or something, They’re pretty upfront about it.
Now they are, with the appropriate spin of course now that they've been caught. The Wedge Document was originally supposed to be "top secret" and not for distribution outside the Institute.
Many people, including many religious people, have in their minds the idea that science is the only form of objective knowledge, and sense science deals only with “things” that everything is subject to its scrutiny.