Center for Science and Culture

Center for Science and Culture (CSC), dulu bernama Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC), adalah bagian dari Discovery Institute, suatu organisasi pemikiran Kristen konservatif^[2] di Amerika Serikat. CSC melobi masuknya kreasionisme dalam bentuk intelligent design (ID) di kurikulum ilmiah sekolah publik sebagai penjelasan asal mula kehidupan dan alam semesta sementara membangkitkan keraguan atas teori evolusi.^[3]

Center for Science and Culture

Tanggal pendirian	1994
Status	Non-profit
Tipe	Part of the Discovery Institute
Tujuan	Promote intelligent design
Kantor pusat	Seattle, Washington, USA
Program Director	Stephen C. Meyer
Anggaran	$4.1 million
Jumlah Staf	8[1]
Situs web	www.discovery.org/csc/

Fellow

• Program Advisor: Phillip E. Johnson
• Program Director: Stephen C. Meyer
• Associate Director: John G. West

Senior fellow

• Michael J. Behe
• David Berlinski
• Paul Chien
• William A. Dembski
• David DeWolf
• Guillermo Gonzalez
• Michael Newton Keas
• Nancy Pearcey
• Jay Richards
• Mark Ryland
• Wesley J. Smith
• Richard Weikart
• Jonathan Wells
• Benjamin Wiker
• Jonathan Witt

Fellow

• Raymond Bohlin
• Walter Bradley
• J. Budziszewski
• John Angus Campbell
• Robert Lowry Clinton
• C. John 'Jack' Collins^[4]
• William Lane Craig
• Brian Frederick
• Mark Hartwig
• Kenneth Hermann
• Cornelius G. Hunter
• Robert Kaita
• Dean H. Kenyon
• Robert C. Koons
• Forrest Mims
• Scott Minnich
• J.P. Moreland
• Paul Nelson
• Joseph Poulshock
• Pattle Pak-Toe Pun
• John Mark Reynolds
• Henry Schaefer
• Geoffrey Simmons
• Wolfgang Smith
• Charles Thaxton

Bekas Fellow

• Francis J. Beckwith
• Robin Collins - Professor of Philosophy at Messiah College
• Michael Denton^[5]
• Marcus R. Ross^[6]
• Jeffrey Schloss^[7][8]

Staff

• Casey Luskin, Program Officer in Public Policy & Legal Affairs.^[9] Luskin membantu mempromosikan Academic Freedom bills di Florida^[10] bersama-sama Ben Stein.^[11] Luskin juga menulis blog bagi Discovery Institute, menampilkan kritikan mengenai evolusi, yang mendapat kritikan dan bantahan keras dari sejumlah komunitas ilmiah.^[12][13]
• Robert L. Crowther, Director of Communications^[14]

Lihat pula

• Discovery Institute
• Perancangan cerdas

Referensi

1. Fellows
2. Patricia O’Connell Killen, a religion professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma whose work centers around the regional religious identity of the Pacific Northwest, recently wrote that "religiously inspired think tanks such as the conservative evangelical Discovery Institute" are part of the "religious landscape" of that area. Intelligent Design: Creationism's Trojan Horse, A Conversation With Barbara Forrest Diarsipkan 2008-03-04 di Wayback Machine., Church & State, Feb 2005
3. Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy di www.centerforinquiry.net Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal (diarsipkan tanggal 20070630002824), Barbara Forrest. May, 2007.
4. Jack Collins, Fellow - CSC^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}, Discovery Institute
5. Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. Oxford University Press, 2004. page 153
6. Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. 2004, page 59
7. Edie Lau, "Some find middle ground in science-theology clash," Sacramento Bee, October 3, 2005
8. "The evolution of Jeffrey P Schloss", The Panda's Thumb, August 12, 2008
9. "Casey Luskin, Staff - Discovery Institute". Center for Science and Culture. 2008. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-06-23. Diakses tanggal 2008-07-17.
10. "Let There Be Open Debate Over Evolution". The Tampa Tribune. February 18, 2008. Diakses tanggal 2008-07-16.^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
11. "Prepared Remarks by Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute, for Press Conference on Florida Academic Freedom Act". Center for Science and Culture. March 12, 2008. Diakses tanggal 2008-05-17.
12. "Response to Casey Luskin". TalkOrigins Archive. March 10, 2002. Diakses tanggal 2008-05-17.
13. "Missing The Wrist". Discover (magazine). July 14, 2008. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-07-20. Diakses tanggal 2008-07-18.
14. Robert L.. Crowther, II

Pranala luar

• Discovery Institute's CSC
• The Wedge Strategy
• The Wedge Document -- So what? from the Discovery Institute (Archive.org)

Articles

• Discovery's Creation Diarsipkan 2006-02-07 di Wayback Machine. A brief history of the Discovery institute and how the Wedge Document was made public.
• Evolving Banners at the Discovery Institute - the NCSE shows the changing banners on the CRSC/CSC's website.
• Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive Diarsipkan 2008-11-09 di Wayback Machine. Jody Wilgoren. Originally published in the New York Times. 21 August 2005
• The Death of Materialism and the Renewal of Culture, JohnG. West, Jr.