Editing Intelligent design movement (section)

=== Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture ===
{{main|Center for Science and Culture}}
On December 6, 1993, an article by Meyer was published in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', drawing national attention to the controversy over Dean H. Kenyon's teaching of creationism. This article also gained the attention of Discovery Institute co-founder [[Bruce Chapman]]. On discovering that Meyer was developing the idea of starting a scientific research center in conversations with conservative political scientist [[John G. West]], Chapman invited them to create a unit within the Discovery Institute called the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (later renamed the Center for Science and Culture). This center was dedicated to overthrowing "[[Metaphysical naturalism|scientific materialism]]" and "fomenting nothing less than a scientific and cultural revolution."<ref name="Num381">[[#Numbers 2006|Numbers 2006]], pp. 381–382</ref>
A 1995 conference, "The Death of Materialism and the Renewal of Culture," served as a blueprint for the center.<ref>[[#Forrest & Gross 2004|Forrest & Gross 2004]], p. 19</ref> By 1996 they had nearly a million dollars in grants, the largest being from [[Howard Ahmanson, Jr.]], with smaller but still large contributions coming from the Stewardship Foundation established by C. Davis Weyerhaeuser and the Maclellan Foundation, and appointed their first class of research fellows.<ref name="Num381" />