Editing Center for Science and Culture (section)

===Intelligent design in higher education===
The cultivation of support for ID and its social and political agenda in higher education is a very active part of CSC's strategy. The CSC has claimed that established scholars in the scientific community support intelligent design.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discovery.org/id/faqs/#questionsAboutIntelligentDesign |title=CSC - Top Questions: Questions About Intelligent Design |website=Center for Science and Culture |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=Discovery Institute |location=Seattle, WA |access-date=2014-05-18}}</ref>

CSC-recommended curricula benefits from special status at number of religious schools. [[Biola University]] and [[Oklahoma Baptist University]] are listed on the [[Access Research Network]] website as "ID Colleges."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arn.org/college.htm |title=ID Colleges |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=[[Access Research Network]] |location=Colorado Springs, CO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010224032/http://www.arn.org/college.htm |archive-date=2008-10-10 |access-date=2014-05-22}}</ref> In addition, the [[Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center]] (IDEA), which began as a student organization at the [[University of California, San Diego]], helps establish student IDEA clubs on university and high school campuses. The Intelligent Design and Undergraduate Research Center, ARN's student division, also recruits and supports followers at universities. Campus youth ministries play an active role in bringing ID to university campuses through lectures by ID leaders Phillip E. Johnson, William A. Dembski, [[Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate)|Jonathan Wells]], Michael Behe, and others. This activity takes place outside university science departments.

Several public universities, including the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and the [[University of New Mexico]] have had intelligent design often as freshman seminars, honors courses, and other courses outside required curricula in which instructors have wider latitude regarding course content.<ref>{{cite news |last=McMurtrie |first=Beth |date=December 21, 2001 |title=Darwinism Under Attack |url=http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/darwinismunderattack012502.htm |newspaper=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. |issn=0009-5982 |access-date=2014-05-18}}</ref>