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The Center for Science and Culture (CSC), formerly known as the Center for Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC) is an American organisation that espouses intelligent design (ID). It is part of the conservative Christian thinktank, the Discovery Institute. The CSC argues that there is evidence that life has been designed, and tries to present this as science. It is opposed to Darwinian explanations of thee origins of life. The scientific community however is critical of ID, labelling it creationism and pseudoscience.
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The CRSC (as it then was) was founded in 1996. The "Renewal of", later dropped referred from its named is believed to return the the "science" of the Rennaissance Era. Science as it is know today started during that time as protoscience and was conducted with the aim of studying God's Universe. Critics have pointed out that this does not fit in with established scientific philosophy and thus label it pseudoscience.
The CSC has a number of fellows. The program director is Stephen C Meyer, Associated Director is John G West. The father of the movement however and perhaps the most important is Phillip E. Johnson. Most of these fellows are theists, and Christians of various denominations.
In 1999 an internal report from 1998 was leaked. It presented a five-year plan of how they would get accepted as science. The document mentions God six times, and defined the following key aims of the movement:
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The Wedge
The Discovery Institute would later issue a statement on this. It said that they were concerned about the "unscientific principle of materialism" within scientific philosophy, and defending the general aims of the CSC.External links