Editing Center for Science and Culture (section)

===Research fellowships===
The CSC offers fellowships of up to $60,000 a year for "support of significant and original research in the natural sciences, the history and philosophy of science, cognitive science and related fields."<ref name="fellowship_info">{{cite web |url=http://www.discovery.org/csc/fellowshipInfo.php |title=Information about Center Fellows and the Research Fellowship Program |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Center for Science and Culture |publisher=Discovery Institute |location=Seattle, WA |access-date=2014-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140412164216/http://www.discovery.org/csc/fellowshipInfo.php |archive-date=2014-04-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Published reports state that the CSC has awarded $3.6 million in fellowships of $5,000 to $60,000 per year to 50 researchers since its founding in 1996.<ref name="wilgoren"/>

Among the center's publications are 50 books on intelligent design, such as those by William A. Dembski, and two documentary films, ''[[Unlocking the Mystery of Life]]'' (2003) and ''[[The Privileged Planet#Film|The Privileged Planet]]'' (2004), the later based on the book of the same name written by senior fellows [[Jay Richards|Jay W. Richards]] and [[Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)|Guillermo Gonzalez]].

Since its founding in 1996, the CSC has spent 39 percent of its $9.3 million<!-- explain where the money comes from--> on research according to Meyer, underwriting books or papers, or often just paying universities to release professors from some teaching responsibilities so that they can ponder intelligent design. Over those nine years, $792,585 was spent to finance laboratory or field research in biology, paleontology, or biophysics, while $93,828 was spent to help graduate students in paleontology, linguistics, history, and philosophy.<ref name="wilgoren"/>

The results of this are found in Discovery Institute-authored science class curricula, "model lesson plans", which are at the center of many of the [[intelligent design movement#Politics and public education|current debates]] about including intelligent design in public school science classes. CSC promotes these, urging states and school boards to include criticism of evolution science lessons, and to "[[Teach the Controversy]]", rather than actually teach intelligent design which is susceptible to legal challenges on [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] grounds.{{fact|date=March 2020}}