intellectual and academic integrity at stake here … We should not be afraid to ask questions, even if they are politically incorrect A compromise was later reached to form an independent committee to review the center, consisting of eight faculty members from across the country to be chaired by the Professor of Philosophy William F. Cooper. The committee met between September 8 and September 10. On October 17 the committee released its report. Although it recommended that there should be a place for the study of intelligent design, it recommended that the center be renamed and reconstituted within Baylor's Institute for Faith and Learning. This was seen as a compromise between the two sides and an attempt to defuse the row that had developed. Aftermath On October 18 Dembski responded to the report with a press release/email: In reaction to Dembski's response, Baylor removed Dembski as director and he was made an untenured associate research professor in "conceptual foundations of science" in Baylor's Institute for Faith and Learning. He held that position until he left Baylor in May 2005. Gordon was named interim director and by 2001 the center had been renamed The Baylor Science and Religion Project and placed under the institute. By 2002 it had been again renamed to the Baylor Center for Science, Philosophy and Religion, still with Gordon at its head. By 2003 the MPC had been formally dissolved. Gordon left Baylor in 2005 to join the Discovery Institute. References External links Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning Statement by William Dembski on his removal as Director of the Michael Polanyi Center at Baylor University Intelligent design controversies Intelligent design organizations Baylor University Research institutes established in 1999 1999 establishments in Texas