The Discovery Institute Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture "Wedge" Document

Submitted by Wesley R. Elsberry on Thu, 2006-12-21 19:08. Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture

In 1999, the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture put together a brief fund-raising document outlining their purpose and plans in general terms for the following twenty years. They used a third-party copying center for duplication, and the person who was actually tasked with copying the document thought it looked of interest, and with a friend released the text to the Internet.

I have hosted the OCR of the text here, complete with original OCR errors, since that time. I'm pleased to be able to offer a PDF version now.

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