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The '''Discovery Institute''' ('''DI''') is a [[Wikipedia:conservatism in the United States|politically conservative]]<ref name="wilgoren">{{cite news |last1=Wilgoren |first1=Jodi |date=August 21, 2005 |title=Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/national/21evolve.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=24bc7c9b16cac8a8&ex=1282276800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |newspaper=New York Times |accessdate=June 24, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |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 |accessdate=May 27, 2014 |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=May 17, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="lrb">{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Thomas |date=November 1, 2001 |title=Short Cuts |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n21/thomas-jones/short-cuts |journal=[[London Review of Books]] |volume=23 |issue=21 |page=22 |issn=0260-9592 |accessdate=June 24, 2010}}</ref>

(ID). It was founded in 1990 as a non-profit offshoot of the [[:Category:Hudson Institute|Hudson Institute]]. Its "[[Wikipedia:Teach the Controversy|Teach the Controversy]]" campaign aims to permit the teaching of anti-[[Wikipedia:evolution|evolution]], intelligent-design beliefs in [[Wikipedia:United States|United States]] [[Wikipedia:State school#United States|public high school]] [[Wikipedia:Science education|science courses]] in place of accepted [[Wikipedia:Scientific theory|scientific theories]], positing that a scientific controversy exists over these subjects when in fact there is none.<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 |last1=Forrest |first1=Barbara |authorlink=Wikipedia:Barbara Forrest |date=May 2007 |website=[[Center for Inquiry]] |publisher=Center for Inquiry |location=Washington, D.C. |accessdate=August 6, 2007}}</ref><ref name="abc_wnt">{{cite news |date=November 9, 2005 |title=Small Group Wields Major Influence in Intelligent Design Debate |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1297170&WNT=true |work=[[Wikipedia:ABC World News|World News Tonight]] |location=New York |publisher=[[Wikipedia:American Broadcasting Company|American Broadcasting Company]] |accessdate=June 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521051447/https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1297170&WNT=true |archive-date=May 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Mooney_2002">{{cite web |last1=Mooney |first1=Chris |authorlink=Wikipedia:Chris Mooney (journalist) |date=December 2002 |title=Survival of the Slickest |url=https://prospect.org/article/survival-slickest |journal=[[The American Prospect]] |location=Washington, D.C. |volume=13 |issue=22 |accessdate=July 23, 2008}}</ref><ref name="teachingID">{{cite web |url=http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_teachingid0201.htm |title=Teaching Intelligent Design: What Happened When? |last1=Dembski |first1=William A. |authorlink=Wikipedia:William A. Dembski |year=2001 |website=[[Access Research Network]] |location=Colorado Springs, CO |accessdate=May 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/07/no_one_here_but.html |title=No one here but us Critical Analysis-ists\u2026 |last1=Matzke |first1=Nick |authorlink=Wikipedia:Nick Matzke |date=July 11, 2006 |website=[[The Panda's Thumb (blog)|The Panda's Thumb]] |publisher=[[Wikipedia:TalkOrigins Archive|The TalkOrigins Foundation, Inc.]] |location=Houston, TX |type=Blog |accessdate=May 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906051325/http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/07/no_one_here_but.html |archivedate=September 6, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://evolutionnews.org/2016/02/discovery_insti_7/|title= Mississippi Legislators Should Drop Academic Freedom Bill or Make Clear It Doesn't Permit Creationism|date= February 22, 2016|accessdate= February 22, 2016|website= |last= |first=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=1453|title= The Theory of Evolution: Educator's Briefing Packet|date= |accessdate= February 19, 2016|website= The Discovery Institute: Center for Science & Culture|last= |first= |pages=5–6}}</ref>

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