I recall that title getting kicked around some time after Kitzmiller.
When the ID scam outfit started they used to have what they called a
"program director." I recall that at the time that the Wedge document
came out the program director was the only IDiot to acknowledge that the
document was genuine and even pointed out the original mission statement
that was still up at the Discovery Institute web site at that time as
evidence that the Wedge document was simply a restatement of the mission
statement. I think Jay Richards was the program director at that time,
and he knew the program that he was directing.
The original Mission Statement of the ID scam unit of the Discovery
Institute:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114111554/http://discovery.org/crsc/aboutcrsc.html
QUOTE:
THE proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one
of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. Its
influence can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest
achievements, including representative democracy, human rights, free
enterprise, and progress in the arts and sciences.
END QUOTE:
QUOTE:
Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture
seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its damning
cultural legacies. Bringing 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 the supernatural. The Center awards fellowships for original
research, holds conferences, and briefs policymakers about the
opportunities for life after materialism.
END QUOTE:
This is really what the Discovery Institute ID perps signed up for. It
was published right on their web site until they took it down. People
have to go to the link and observe the ID perp's logo of God and Adam to
know that ID was never going to pass the Lemon test. Really, the
picture of God and Adam was on their original home page for the ID scam
unit before creationist rubes started to get serious and started
repeating the ID perp junk about teaching intelligent design in the
public schools. Before the bait and switch started to go down in 2002
the mission statement disappeared and the logo changed.
The Wedge Document:
http://ncse.com/creationism/general/wedge-document
QUOTE:
The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one
of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. Its
influence can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest
achievements, including representative democracy, human rights, free
enterprise, and progress in the arts and sciences.
END QUOTE:
QUOTE:
Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture
seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural
legacies. Bringing 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. The Center awards
fellowships for original research, holds conferences, and briefs
policymakers about the opportunities for life after materialism.
END QUOTE:
So it is apparent from the "program" of the Discovery Institute that the
science was secondary to their religious political goals. ID was
supposed to be the wedge that they could use to institute their
theological paradise.
It is just too bad that ID turned into more of a wet noodle than a wedge
capable of doing much of anything.
Ron Okimoto