| abstract | - The fecundism strategy is the newest sword in the heavily depleted arsenal of the intelligent design movement. Engineered by the Discovery Institute, the strategy is set out in the Fecundism Document, a manifesto that was, in the style of blundering idiocy that has become typical of the ID movement, leaked into the public arena. The strategy seeks to 'defeat the stifling materialist dogma that permeates contemporary American society' and 'rid society of the psychological disease that is evolution', culminating in 'winning the War on Science once and for all'. To achieve this objective, methods of rapid population increase among conservative Christian families is advocated. Where the wedge strategy sought to drive a wedge through the foundations of science and naturalism, the fecundism strategy seeks to increase the population of Christian conservatives to such a point that the non-religious are a tiny minority, who can then be "publicly mocked as freaks, heathens and heretics" and "possibly executed, to prevent the spread of atheism".
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