Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Pacific Northwest Bloggers Take on Discovery Institute
Out in the Pacific Northwest, a group of bloggers is beginning to take a hard look at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the Seattle-based intelligent design think tank. There's this initial tidbit from Washblog:
Jon Devore, who writes the ColumbianWatch, blog has a post up about the Vancouver-based M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust which gave $215,000 in 2002 and $345,000 in 2003 to finance the Discovery Institute.
Jon also sends word of a group of Northwest bloggers who are attempting to generate media interest by blogging about the Discovery Institute. They've set up an aggregator site called Pacific NW Portal that is a convenient one-stop look for what some progressive bloggers are doing.
Give them a look.
"The (Discovery) Institute's religious agenda has won it the backing of wealthy financiers and foundations. For example, California multi-millionaire Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., has singled out the Discovery Institute for big contributions. Ahmanson is aligned with Christian Reconstructionism, an extreme faction of the Religious Right that seeks to replace democracy with a fundamentalist theocracy."
Jon Devore, who writes the ColumbianWatch, blog has a post up about the Vancouver-based M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust which gave $215,000 in 2002 and $345,000 in 2003 to finance the Discovery Institute.
Jon also sends word of a group of Northwest bloggers who are attempting to generate media interest by blogging about the Discovery Institute. They've set up an aggregator site called Pacific NW Portal that is a convenient one-stop look for what some progressive bloggers are doing.
Give them a look.
