Editing Center for Science and Culture (section)

{{Short description|Part of the Discovery Institute}}
{{Infobox organization
| name             = Center for Science and Culture
| image            = Center for Science and Culture (logo).jpg
| type             = Non-profit
| founded_date     = 1996
| location_city    = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| location_country = United States
| focus            = Promote [[intelligent design]]
| key_people       = [[Stephen C. Meyer]]
| num_employees    = 8 staff<ref name="fellows">{{cite web |url=https://www.discovery.org/id/about/fellows/ |title=Fellows |website=Center for Science and Culture |publisher=[[Discovery Institute]] |location=Seattle, WA |access-date=2014-05-15}}</ref>
| owner            = [[Discovery Institute]]
| website          = {{URL|https://www.discovery.org/id/}}
}}
{{Intelligent Design}}

The '''Center for Science and Culture''' ('''CSC'''), formerly known as the '''Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture''' ('''CRSC'''), is part of the [[Discovery Institute]] (DI), a [[Christian right|conservative Christian]] [[think tank]]<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Intelligent Design: Creationism's Trojan Horse - A Conversation With Barbara Forrest |date=February 2005 |url=https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2005-church-state/featured/intelligent-design-creationism%E2%80%99s-trojan-horse-a |journal=Church & State |location=Washington, D.C. |type=Unabridged interview |publisher=[[Americans United for Separation of Church and State]] |issn=2163-3746 |access-date=2014-05-16 |quote=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. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517153210/https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2005-church-state/featured/intelligent-design-creationism%E2%80%99s-trojan-horse-a |archive-date=2014-05-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the [[United States]]. The CSC lobbies for the inclusion of [[creationism]] in the form of [[intelligent design]] (ID) in [[state school#United States|public-school]] science curricula as an explanation for the origins of [[life]] and the [[universe]] while trying to cast doubt on the [[scientific theory|theory]] of [[evolution]].<ref name="ForrestMay2007Paper">{{cite web |url=https://centerforinquiry.org/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |title=Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals |last=Forrest |first=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Forrest |date=May 2007 |website=[[Center for Inquiry]] |publisher=Center for Inquiry |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2014-05-16 |archive-date=2019-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214134028/http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> These positions have been rejected by many in the [[scientific community]], which identifies intelligent design as [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] [[neo-creationism]], whereas the theory of evolution is the accepted [[scientific consensus]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Delgado |first=Cynthia |date=July 28, 2006 |title=Finding the Evolution in Medicine |url=https://nihrecord.nih.gov/pdfs/2006/07282006Record.pdf |journal=[[NIH Record]] |location=Bethesda, MD |publisher=[[National Institutes of Health]] |volume=58 |issue=15 |page=8 |issn=1057-5871 |access-date=2014-05-16 |quote=...99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution...}}</ref>

The Center for Science and Culture serves as the hub of the [[intelligent design movement]]. Nearly all of prominent proponents of intelligent design are either CSC advisors, officers, or fellows. [[Stephen C. Meyer]], a former vice president of the Discovery Institute and founder of the CSC, serves as a Senior Fellow, and [[Phillip E. Johnson]] was the Program Advisor. Johnson is commonly presented as the movement's "father" and architect of the center's [[Wedge strategy]] and "[[Teach the Controversy]]" campaign, as well as the [[Santorum Amendment]].