Discovery Institute

Discovery Institute
	Berkas:Discovery Institute.svg
Tanggal pendirian	1994
Status	Nirlaba
Kantor pusat	Seattle, Washington, Amerika Serikat
Presiden	Bruce Chapman
Anggaran	Total revenue: $5,656,478 in FYE December 2011; Total functional expenses: $4,842,034 in FYE December 2011
Situs web	www.discovery.org

Discovery Institute adalah sebuah organisasi publik nirlaba sebagai think-tank kebijakan yang berkantor pusat di Seattle, Washington, terkenal sebagai pendukung "intelligent design" (ID). Kampanye "Teach the Controversy" organisasi ini bertujuan untuk mengajarkan teori anti-evolusi di sekolah-sekolah publik di Amerika Serikat bersama-sama dengan teori-teori ilmiah yang sudah diterima, menempatkan kontroversi ilmiah bagi topik ini.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Organisasi

Pejabat, direktur dan fellow

Presiden^[7]

Bruce Chapman

Wakil Presiden

Steven J. Buri

Board of Directors

Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
Tom Alberg
Charles K Barbo
Bruce Chapman
Robert J. Cihak
Skip Gilliland
Slade Gorton
Richard R. Greiling
Patricia Herbold
Bob Kelly
Byron Nutley
James Spady
Michael K. Vaska
Raymond J. Waldmann

Program Advisor (CSC)

Phillip E. Johnson

Senior Fellows

Adjunct Fellows

Howard L. Chapman
Frank Dillow
Edwin Meese
Robert Spitzer

Bekas Fellow

Yuri Y. Mamchur
Vincent Phillip Muñoz
James J. Na
Mark Ryland
Bret Swanson
William Tucker
Jonathan Wells
Benjamin Wiker
Richard Weikart

Center for Science and Culture

Center for Science and Culture (CSC), dulunya bernama Center for Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC), adalah sebuah subsidiari dari Discovery Institute. Dibentuk pada tahun 1996 dengan bantuan Phillip E. Johnson untuk mendorong Wedge strategy. Chapman menyebut CSC sebagai "Proyek No. 1 kita."^[8]

Discovery Institute Press

Discovery Institute Press merupakan bagian penerbitan Institut ini^[9] dan telah menerbitkan buku-buku bertopik intelligent design yang ditulis para anggotanya termasuk karya David Berlinski Deniable Darwin & Other Essays (2010), Jonathan Wells The Myth of Junk DNA (2011) dan suatu volume tersunting berjudul Signature Of Controversy, yang memuat karya-karya apologetika untuk membela dari direktur Center for Science and Culture Stephen Meyer.

Lihat pula

Referensi

^ "Discovery Institute". Charity Navigator. Glen Rock, NJ: Charity Navigator. Diakses tanggal 2014-04-27.
^ Forrest, Barbara (May 2007). "Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Inquiry, Inc. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2011-05-19. Diakses tanggal 2007-08-06.
^ Harris, Dan (November 9, 2005). "Small Group Wields Major Influence in Intelligent Design Debate". ABC News. Diakses tanggal June 24, 2010.
^ "ID's home base is the Center for Science and Culture at Seattle's conservative Discovery Institute. Meyer directs the center; former Reagan adviser Bruce Chapman heads the larger institute, with input from the Christian supply-sider and former American Spectator owner George Gilder (also a Discovery senior fellow). From this perch, the ID crowd has pushed a "teach the controversy" approach to evolution that closely inﬂuenced the Ohio State Board of Education's recently proposed science standards, which would require students to learn how scientists "continue to investigate and critically analyze" aspects of Darwin's theory." Chris Mooney. The American Prospect. December 2, 2002 Survival of the Slickest: How anti-evolutionists are mutating their message Diarsipkan 2007-11-17 di Wayback Machine.. Retrieved on 2008-07-23
^ Teaching Intelligent Design: What Happened When? by William A. Dembski "The clarion call of the intelligent design movement is to "teach the controversy." There is a very real controversy centering on how properly to account for biological complexity (cf. the ongoing events in Kansas), and it is a scientific controversy."
^ Nick Matzke's analysis shows how teaching the controversy using the Critical Analysis of Evolution model lesson plan is a means of teaching all the intelligent design arguments without using the intelligent design label.No one here but us Critical Analysis-ists... Diarsipkan 2015-09-06 di Wayback Machine. Nick Matzke. The Panda's Thumb, July 11, 2006
^ "About Discovery". Discovery Institute. Diakses tanggal June 24, 2010.
^ Forrest, Barbara (December 2001). "How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream". Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-66124-1.
^ Discovery Institute Press, 2010

Pranala luar

Discovery Institute Official Web Site

[charitynavigator.org-1] "Discovery Institute". Charity Navigator. Glen Rock, NJ: Charity Navigator. Diakses tanggal 2014-04-27.

[ForrestMayPaper-2] Forrest, Barbara (May 2007). "Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Inquiry, Inc. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2011-05-19. Diakses tanggal 2007-08-06.

[abc-3] Harris, Dan (November 9, 2005). "Small Group Wields Major Influence in Intelligent Design Debate". ABC News. Diakses tanggal June 24, 2010.

[4] "ID's home base is the Center for Science and Culture at Seattle's conservative Discovery Institute. Meyer directs the center; former Reagan adviser Bruce Chapman heads the larger institute, with input from the Christian supply-sider and former American Spectator owner George Gilder (also a Discovery senior fellow). From this perch, the ID crowd has pushed a "teach the controversy" approach to evolution that closely inﬂuenced the Ohio State Board of Education's recently proposed science standards, which would require students to learn how scientists "continue to investigate and critically analyze" aspects of Darwin's theory." Chris Mooney. The American Prospect. December 2, 2002 Survival of the Slickest: How anti-evolutionists are mutating their message Diarsipkan 2007-11-17 di Wayback Machine.. Retrieved on 2008-07-23

[5] Teaching Intelligent Design: What Happened When? by William A. Dembski "The clarion call of the intelligent design movement is to "teach the controversy." There is a very real controversy centering on how properly to account for biological complexity (cf. the ongoing events in Kansas), and it is a scientific controversy."

[6] Nick Matzke's analysis shows how teaching the controversy using the Critical Analysis of Evolution model lesson plan is a means of teaching all the intelligent design arguments without using the intelligent design label.No one here but us Critical Analysis-ists... Diarsipkan 2015-09-06 di Wayback Machine. Nick Matzke. The Panda's Thumb, July 11, 2006

[about_discovery-7] "About Discovery". Discovery Institute. Diakses tanggal June 24, 2010.

[8] Forrest, Barbara (December 2001). "How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream". Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-66124-1.

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