Stewart Brand on the Long Now

Discovery Institute The Discovery Institute is a U.S. non-profit public policy think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of the pseudoscience "intelligent design". Its Teach the Controversy campaign aims to teach creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school science courses alongside accepted scientific theories, positing a scientific controversy exists over these subjects.[2][3][4][5][6] In Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania found: "Teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (and Article I, Section 3 of the Pennsylvania State Constitution) because intelligent design is not science and "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." History[edit] Organization[edit] Officers, directors and fellows[edit] Programs[edit] C.