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Discovery Institute Press is the institute's publishing arm [14] and has published intelligent design books by its fellows including David Berlinski's Deniable Darwin & Other Essays (2010), Jonathan Wells' The Myth of Junk DNA (2011) and an edited volume titled Signature Of Controversy, which contains apologetics in defense of the institute's Center for Science and Culture director Stephen C ...
Chapman left the Hudson Institute in 1990 and cofounded the Discovery Institute along with George Franklin Gilder in 1991. [a] [12] [13] [14] The institute is best known as the hub of the pseudoscientific Intelligent design movement, [15] and also focuses on a broad range of issues, including: economics, transportation, technology, and citizen ...
George Franklin Gilder (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l d ər /; born November 29, 1939) is an American investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 book, Wealth and Poverty, advanced a case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the early months of the Reagan administration. He is the chairman of George Gilder Fund ...
[1] [2] Meyer was a founder of the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute (DI), [3] which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. [4] [5] [6] Before joining the institute, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. He is a senior fellow of the DI and the director of the CSC. [7]
David Berlinski (born 1942) is an American mathematician [1] and philosopher. He has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization that promotes the pseudoscientific idea of intelligent design.
(The Center Square) – The Discovery Institute will soon unveil its policy plan that recommends “treatment-first” solutions to addressing the homelessness crisis in Seattle. The organization ...
In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105-page eBook titled Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell, edited by Klinghoffer, with chapters by Discovery Institute fellows David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, and Richard Sternberg. [7]
[citation needed] The Institute's approach has been to position itself as opposed to any required teaching intelligent design, while campaigns such as Teach the Controversy and Critical Analysis of Evolution introduce high school students to design arguments through the Discovery Institute-drafted lesson plans. Teach the Controversy and Free Speech on Evolution both require that "competing" or ...