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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 conservatism in the United States, politically conservative think tank that advocates the pseudoscience, pseudoscientific concept Article available froUniversiteit Gent of intelligent design (ID). It was fou ...

's Center for Science and Culture (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 Paul R. Gross, '' Creationism's Trojan Horse''.

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

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

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environmental issues Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. Further, these issues can be caused by humans (human impact on the environment) or they can be natural. These issues are considered serious when the ecosystem cannot recov ...

evolution Evolution is the change in the heritable Phenotypic trait, characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, re ...

, 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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