"The Wedge Strategy" refers to a document (the Wedge Document) developed by the Discovery Institute in 1998 and leaked by Tim Rhodes in 1999. It outlines a strategy to insinuate a specific subset of Christian Fundamentalism into the public education system. Although Wedge Proponents have denied this, the Wedge Strategy is still very much in use (more or less), so it is important for people interested in protecting our system of education from religious freaks to know about it. You can download a copy of it here (large PDF, 0.5 megabytes).
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I almost missed the lastest Accretionary Wedge! In my defense, I was doing work related to the Wedge's theme - I was frantically getting ready for classes to start today, and I swore not to go through the accumulation in my RSS reader until I was ready to go.
The Accretionary Wedge, the monthly carnival of geology, is still alive! Or, well, it's still active, at least.
The following are links to selected posts on this blog that are related to science education or the evolution-creationism 'debate.'
Barbara Forrest has written a review of the book Darwinism, Design and Public Education, written by John Angus Campbell and Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute.
Sweet Jebus Greg! Where did you find that? Amazing document. I could have been laughing so hard if it wasn't meant to be serious. I am linking back to you in a moment...
Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the Wedge Strategy.
Thank you for posting this! I was looking for a copy of this.
Thank you for posting this! I was looking for a copy of this.