In January 2007, Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute coined the term exaflood for a supposedly impending flood of exabytes that would cause the Internet's congestive collapse.

Intelligent design ( ID ) is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute.

The leading proponents of intelligent design are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank, and believe the designer to be the Christian deity.

* Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture ( Hub of the intelligent design movement )

* EvolutionNews. org Discovery Institute website tracking media coverage of intelligent design.

* ID The Future A multiple contributor weblog by Discovery Institute fellows.

* Intelligent Design Debate debate between paleontologist Peter Ward and Stephen Meyer co-founder of the Discovery Institute at Talk of the Times event at Town Hall Center for Civic Life, Seattle, Washington

* About Irreducible Complexity Discovery Institute

* How to Explain Irreducible Complexity -- A Lab Manual Discovery Institute

The Discovery Institute is an American non-profit public policy think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design.

In April 2000, Dembski hosted a conference on " naturalism in science " sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and the hub of the intelligent design movement, the Discovery Institute, seeking to address the question " Is there anything beyond nature ?".

As one of the Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns it became a cornerstone in the intelligent design movement's " Teach the Controversy " campaign.

The origin of the amendment can be traced back to 2000, when leading intelligent design ( ID ) proponents through the Discovery Institute,

This was hailed as a major victory by proponents of intelligent design and other creationists ; for instance an email newsletter by the Discovery Institute contained the sentence " Undoubtedly this will change the face of the debate over the theories of evolution and intelligent design in America ... It also seems that the Darwinian monopoly on public science education, and perhaps the biological sciences in general, is ending.

Despite the amendment lacking the weight of law, the conference report is constantly cited by the Discovery Institute and other ID supporters as providing federal sanction for intelligent design.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

This letter was also sent to executives on the Ohio Board of Education and the Texas Board of Education, both of which were subject to Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns at the time.

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* Commentary, history and links from the Discovery Institute web site

* Professor Ken Miller's claim that the Discovery Institute wrongly stated the Santorum Amendment was part of the Education Bill.

* Washington Post article noting Santorum's drawing upon Discovery Institute material for the amendment

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The Discovery Institute, through their Intelligent design initiative called the Center for Science and Culture, has tried to encourage schools to utilize the teach the controversy approach.

Additionally, the university is home to a bevy of research institutes and centers including the Gateway University Research Park, Center for Applied Research, Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Center for Drug Discovery, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, Center for Biotechnology, Genomics & Health Research, Music Research Institute and the Southeastern Regional Vision for Education ( SERVE ).

Among them are leaders of the intelligent design movement and fellows of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the hub of that movement, including Dembski, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, William Lane Craig, and Henry F. Schaefer.

In November 2007, Medved became a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement.

He now serves as a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, hub of the intelligent design movement, and at the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which also promotes intelligent design.

The FTE has close associations with the Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement and other religious Christian groups.

* Quadra Island-Heart and hub of the Discovery Islands

The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement.

Berlinski is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the hub of the intelligent design movement.

It closed to the public on April 8, 1999, but continued to operate until July 9, 1999, at which point all of its animals had been relocated to new homes at Disney's Animal Kingdom ( whose Safari Village hub area was renamed Discovery Island ) and other zoos.

The FTE has close associations with the Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement and other religious Christian groups.

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

In addition, opponents of the amendment cite the stated agenda of the Discovery Institute's Phillip Johnson use of the " Wedge strategy " to " affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind " and thereby return Christian creationism in the guise of intelligent design to public school classrooms.

Johnson is one of the authors of the Discovery Institute's Wedge Document and its Teach the Controversy campaign, which attempts to cast doubt on the validity of the theory of evolution, its acceptance within the scientific community, and reduce its role in public school science curricula while promoting intelligent design.

Since Johnson is considered by those both inside and outside the movement to be the father and architect of the intelligent design movement and its strategies, Johnson's statements are often used to validate the criticisms leveled by those who allege that the Discovery Institute and its allied organizations are merely stripping the obvious religious content from their anti-evolution assertions as a means of avoiding the legal restrictions of the Establishment Clause, a view reinforced by the December 2005 ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial which found that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature.

* Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns

* Discovery Institute, a non-profit public policy think tank, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design

Icons of Evolution is a book by the intelligent design advocate and fellow of the Discovery Institute, Jonathan Wells, which also includes a 2002 video companion.

After receiving his doctorate, he worked at a position he described as " a post-doctoral research biologist at Berkeley, writing articles critical of Darwinism .” Shortly after that Wells joined former UC Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson, father of the intelligent design movement, at the Discovery Institute.