Discovery Institute and the Intelligent Design Movement

The strengths of the Christian scientists in trying to establish God the Creator are self-evident. By presenting and understanding their work, while also demonstrating where they go wrong in philosophy and science, demonstrably puts their work in service of the Glorious Quran’s presentation of the cosmological argument and Allah’s attributes of Al Khaliq, Al Mussawir, Al Baari, and Al Baadi. Some of my previous articles expose their philosophical limitation: Methodological vs. Metaphysical Naturalism: A Comparative Study Across Science, Theology, and Epistemology, Methodological versus metaphysical naturalism: A comprehensive analysis — Avoiding unnecessary debates between theists and atheists and Why Intelligent Design (ID) Is Good Philosophy but Bad Science?

Now without further adoo ID’s useful and positive work:

Founding and Mission

The Discovery Institute (DI) is a nonprofit think tank founded in 1991 in Seattle, Washington, by Bruce Chapman (a former U.S. ambassador and Census Bureau director) and technology author George Gilder discovery.org. It was established as a non-partisan policy and research organization with programs spanning technology, economics, transportation, and other issues discovery.org. In the mid-1990s, the Institute launched its Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (renamed the Center for Science and Culture, CSC, in 2002) to focus on questions of origins and to challenge scientific materialism. The mission of the CSC is to “advance the understanding that human beings and nature are the result of intelligent design rather than a blind and undirected process,” pursuing scientific research, education, and public outreach in support of that view discovery.org. The CSC supports a large cohort of scientists and scholars – over 40 Fellows in fields ranging from biology and biochemistry to philosophy and law – who investigate evidence of design in nature discovery.org. The Center’s director, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, a Cambridge-trained philosopher of science, has been a leading figure in shaping the Institute’s intelligent design research agenda discovery.org.

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