stevestory
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I promise I won't repost the entire 30 page PDF, but it's like crack. Here's another hit:
| Quote | With Meyer as director, the CSC has become the “No. 1 project”
of the DI, whose yearly budget of some $4 million comes
largely from wealthy fundamentalist Christians and Christian
foundations.82 These include the Maclellan Foundation, whose director
said of its DI donation, “We give for religious purposes.
This is not about science, and Darwin wasn’t about science. Dar-
win was about a metaphysical view of the world.”83 Another DI
donor, the Henry P. and Susan C. Crowell Trust, states its mission
as “[t]he teaching and active extension of the doctrines of Evangelical
Christianity through approved grants to qualified organizations,”
84 while the Stewardship Foundation, which gave DI more
than $1 million between 1999 and 2003, states that it “provides
resources to Christ-centered organizations that share their faith
in Jesus Christ with people throughout the world.”85
Some DI donors, concerned about the DI’s primary focus on
propaganda rather than hard-science research to back up ID’s scientific
pretensions, have withdrawn their financial support. The
Templeton Foundation, which funds a broad range of policy
groups, reportedly asked DI officials to submit proposals for ID
research.86 “They never came in,” said Charles Harper, Jr., Templeton’s
senior vice president.87 “From the point of view of rigor
and intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don’t
come out very well in our world of scientific review.”88 |
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