Editing Center for Science and Culture (section)

==Funding==
The center is funded through the Discovery Institute, which is largely underwritten by grants and gifts from wealthy [[Christian fundamentalism|Christian fundamentalist]] conservative individuals and groups, such as Howard Ahmanson Jr., [[Philip F. Anschutz]], [[Richard Mellon Scaife]], and the Maclellan Foundation.<ref name="wp_slevin"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baptist2baptist.net/b2barticle.asp?ID=147 |title=Discovery Institute emerging as force in creation, public policy |last=Willoughby |first=Karen L. |date=May 15, 2001 |website=Baptist2Baptist |publisher=[[Baptist Press]]; [[Southern Baptist Convention#Organization|Executive Committee Southern Baptist Convention]] |location=Nashville, TN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030927223709/http://www.baptist2baptist.net/b2barticle.asp?ID=147 |archive-date=2003-09-27 |access-date=2014-05-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talkreason.org/articles/deception.cfm |title=Deception by Design: The Intelligent Design Movement in America |last=Flank |first=Lenny |date=August 20, 2006 |website=Talk Reason |access-date=2014-05-19 |quote=Nearly all of the Discovery Institute's money for the Intelligent Design project comes in the form of grants from wealthy fundamentalists and from Christian political groups. In 2003, the Discovery Institute received some $4.1 million in donations and grants. At least twenty-two different foundations give money to the Intelligent Design project; two-thirds of these are religious institutions with explicitly Christian aims and goals.}}</ref><ref>[[#Wilgoren 2005|Wilgoren 2005]]. "Financed by some of the same Christian conservatives who helped Mr. Bush win the White House, the organization's intellectual core is a scattered group of scholars who for nearly a decade have explored the unorthodox explanation of life's origins known as intelligent design." ... "The records show financial support from 22 foundations, at least two-thirds of them with explicitly religious missions."</ref>

Published reports place the Discovery Institute's budget for ID-related programs at over $4 million per year. The center's expenditures can be assumed to be substantial based on the scope and quality of the center's extensive public relations campaigns, materials and contributions to local and regional ID and Teach the Controversy efforts.

CSC director, [[Stephen C. Meyer]], admits most of the center's money comes from wealthy donors from the [[Christian right]].<ref name="wp_slevin"/> Howard Ahmanson Jr., who provided $1.5 million in funding that established the center, has said his goal is "the total integration of biblical law into our lives."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2004/01/06/ahmanson/ |title=Avenging angel of the religious right |last=Blumenthal |first=Max |author-link=Max Blumenthal |date=January 6, 2004 |website=Salon |location=San Francisco, CA |publisher=Salon Media Group |access-date=2007-05-17}}</ref> The Maclellan Foundation commits itself to "the infallibility of the Scripture."<ref name="wp_slevin"/> Most Discovery Institute donors have also contributed significantly to the [[George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2004|George W. Bush campaign]]. Until 1995, Ahmanson sat on the board of the Christian reconstructionist [[Chalcedon Foundation]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Clarkson |first=Frederick |author-link=Frederick Clarkson |date=March–June 1994 |title=Christian Reconstructionism: Part 3: No Longer Without Sheep |url=http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre3.html |journal=[[Public Eye Magazine|The Public Eye]] |location=Somerville, MA |publisher=[[Political Research Associates]] |volume=8 |issue=1 |issn=0275-9322 |access-date=2014-05-19}}</ref> and funds many causes important to the Christian right, including [[Christian reconstructionism]].