Access Research Network (ARN) is an American non-profit organization that reports on science, technology and society from an

intelligent design Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins". Numbers 2006, p. 373; " Dcaptured headlines for its bold attempt to ...

perspective. ARN primarily disseminates information via its website, located a
ARN.org
which contains commentary, articles (both original and from other sources), videos, links, and a bookstore, all focusing on intelligent design. Between 2006 and 2011, ARN also published an annual list of "Top 10 Darwin and Design News Stories" compiled by ARN staff and released at the end of each year.

History

SOR was founded in 1977 by a group of students at the

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as a scientific alternative to both the

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and the neo-darwininian paradigm. It did not require adherence to scriptural authority and a specific model as to the

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, potentially avoiding the chronic conflicts that this produced with the

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, and hoped to foster a relationship of dialogue rather than debate. It acts as a ''de facto'' auxiliary website to the

Discovery Institute The Discovery Institute (DI) is a politically conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept Article available froUniversiteit Gent/ref> of intelligent design (ID). It was founde ...

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(CSC) in promoting

(ID), and has become a comprehensive clearinghouse for ID resources, including news releases, publications, multimedia products and an elementary school science curriculum. Its mission is "providing accessible information on science, technology and society issues from an intelligent design perspective."

Barbara Forrest Barbara Carroll Forrest is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She is a critic of intelligent design and the Discovery Institute. Biography Forrest is a graduate of Hammond High School. She re ...

and

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, ''

Creationism's Trojan Horse ''Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design'' is a 2004 book by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross on the origins of intelligent design, specifically the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture and ...

''.

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, (January 8, 2004) (pp 165-167) Its directors are Dennis Wagner (Executive Director) and CSC Fellows Mark Hartwig,

Stephen C. Meyer Stephen C. Meyer (; born 1958) is an American author and former educator. He is an advocate of the pseudoscience of intelligent design and helped found the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute (DI), which is the m ...

and Paul Nelson. The group's publication includes subjects such as

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, fetal tissue research, and

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. It published a journal ''Origins & Design'', but this has been moribund since 2001.Origins & Design Journal
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