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Center For Science And CultureThe Center for Science and Culture (CSC), formerly known as the Center for Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC), is part of the Discovery Institute, a conservative thinktank in the United States. The CSC lobbies for wider acceptance of intelligent design (ID) as an explanation for the origins of life and the universe, and is opposed to the theory of evolution. However, the wider scientific community considers ID to be pseudoscientific and akin to creationism. History The Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture was founded in 1996. The "renewal" in its name is believed to refer to the "science" of the Renaissance Era. Science as it is know today started during that time as protoscience and was conducted with the aim of studying God's Universe. Critics have pointed out that this does not fit in with established scientific philosophy and thus label it pseudoscience. The CSC wants a redefinition of science, and the philosophy on which it is based, particularly the exclusion of what it calls the "unscientific principle of materialism", and in particular the acceptance of what it calls "the scientific theory of intelligent design". Critics argue that the principle of naturalism (i.e. materialism) allows falsifiability and that supernaturalism is unfalsifiable. The Wedge strategy In 1999 an internal CSC report dating from 1998 was leaked to the public, which outlined a five-year plan for fostering broader acceptance of ID. This plan become known as the Wedge strategy. The 'wedge document' explained the key aims of CSC as follows. - Governing Goals
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- Five-Year Goals
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- To see intelligent design theory as an accepted alternative in the sciences and scientific research being done from the perspective of design theory.
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- To see the beginning of the influence of design theory in spheres other than natural science.
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- To see major new debates in education, life issues, legal and personal responsibility pushed to the front of the national agenda.
- Twenty Year Goals
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- To see intelligent design theory as the dominant perspective in science.
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- To see design theory permeate our religious, cultural, moral and political life.
The Discovery Institute would later issue a statement denying that it sought to establish a theocracy. Fellows The CSC has a number of fellows. The program director is Stephen C Meyer, Associated Director is John G West. The father of the movement however and perhaps the most important is Phillip E. Johnson. Most of these fellows are theists, and Christians of various denominations. Senior fellows Fellows - Francis J. Beckwith
- Raymond Bohlin
- Walter Bradley
- J. Budziszewski
- John Angus Campbell
- Robert Lowry Clinton
- Jack Collins
- Robin Collins
- William Lane Craig
- Brian Frederick
- Mark Hartwig
- Kenneth Hermann
- Robert Kaita
- Dean Kenyon
- Robert C. Koons
- Forrest M. Mims
- Scott Minnich
- J.P. Moreland
- Paul Nelson
- Joseph Poulshock
- Pattle Pak-Toe Pun
- John Mark Reynolds
- Marcus Ross
- Henry Schaefer
- Wolfgang Smith
- Charles Thaxton
- Richard Weikart
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