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Discovery Institute (DI) is a think tank in Seattle, Washington. It focuses on both local and global issues, including the Cascadia Project, which is the development of a balanced, seamless, and expanded transportation system between Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. It is also active in conservative Christian movements. Its Center for Science and Culture is a proponent of Intelligent Design. It was founded in 1990 by Bruce Chapman, who had formerly been a fellow of the Hudson Institute, with George Gilder.
Programs
The DI has five main programs which it entitles:
and a further four minor programs:
- Environment
- Religion, Liberty and Public Life
- C.S. Lewis and Public Life
- Education and Community
Position
The DI claims to be non-partisan, though its views are conservative and its founder, Bruce Chapman was a politician for the United States Republican Party. It has supported that party, for example by supporting the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush. Although it denies any specific religious allegiance, it has links to the religious right, particularly in its Bioethics Project and Center for Science and Culture. Another of its programs argues for the relevance of the views of Christian apologist C.S. Lewis to society.
The Technology and Democracy Project envisages the need for technology in a modern economy.
The Cascadia Project relates to transportation in the Seattle area in a Cascadia around the American states of Washington, Oregon and the Canadian province of British Columbia
The Bioethics Program opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human genetic manipulation, human cloning, and the animal rights movement. The Institute uses the language of the religious right.
The Economics Program advocates low taxation and regulation of businesses and individuals as the best way of building a strong economy.
The law and justice focuses on the American tort legal system, which it believes is creating a strain on the American economy and needs to be reformed.
Center for Science and Culture
The Center for Science and Culture (formerly the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture) is the leading body that advocates intelligent design, a theory that life shows evidence of being designed by an "intelligent designer" (i.e. God) and that currently accepted explanations on the origins of life are inadequate. The theory is not recognised by the scientific community, which consider it to be a pseudoscientific form of creationism.
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