Gates Charity Grant Under Fire
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is getting flak as a conservative Seattle-based think tank that received a $10 million from the philanthropy organization appears to have promoted the “intelligent design” theory of evolution backed by some conservative Christians.
The hullabaloo, mostly confined to the blogosphere, stems from a 10-year grant the foundation awarded the Discovery Institute in August 2003 to develop transportation systems among the states of Washington, Oregon, and Canada’s British Columbia province.
Bloggers began criticizing the foundation, the do-gooder organization founded by Microsoft creator Mr. Gates and his wife, after The New York Times reported Sunday that the institute’s Center for Science and Culture apparently provided “ideological and strategic” support for advancing the theory of intelligent design.
posted by Fergie @ 8/27/2005 08:29:00 AM
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