Gates Foundation
By I didn’t know this:
Detractors dismiss Discovery as a fundamentalist front and intelligent design as a clever rhetorical detour around the 1987 Supreme Court ruling banning creationism from curriculums. But the institute’s approach is more nuanced, scholarly and politically adept than its Bible-based predecessors in the century-long battle over biology.
A closer look shows a multidimensional organization, financed by missionary and mainstream groups – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides $1 million a year, including $50,000 of [Discovery Institute President] Mr. Chapman’s $141,000 annual salary – and asserting itself on questions on issues as varied as local transportation and foreign affairs.
Redbeard at Vague Nihilism has an appropriate sense of outrage:
The Gates Foundation is taking a million dollars that could be used to immunize third world kids or buy computers for inner city & rural schools and giving it to the Anti-Evolution crowd?
Appalling. Generally, the Gates Foundation is pretty solid. I’d like to have an explanation for this.