Discovery Institute
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"Discovery Institute" ("DI") is a Nonprofit organization/non-profit public policy think tank based in Seattle, Washington (state)/Washington, best known for its advocacy of the pseudoscience "intelligent design" (ID). Its "Teach the Controversy" campaign aims to teach creationism/creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States State school#United States/public high school Science education/science courses alongside accepted Scientific theory/scientific theories, positing a scientific controversy exists over these subjects.

In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania found:

: "The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon v. Kurtzman#Lemon test/Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Dover Area School District/Board's ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." [...]

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With a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.

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We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself.

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Because they expand the information presented to students about biological and chemical evolution by including some of the scientific criticisms of these theories.

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There is, in fact, no entity in the known universe that stores and processes information more efficiently than the DNA molecule. Every DNA has 3 billion individual characteristics.

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To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.

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While we get credited with being the evil geniuses (behind intelligent design) . . . it's not like we're at the grass roots.

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[Intelligent design advocates were ebullient Tuesday.] It's very significant for the students of Kansas, ... Instead of just the evidence that supports evolution, they're going to see all sides.

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