as presenting intelligent design as an alternative to evolution. This prompted a move to a fallback position, teaching "critical analysis" of evolutionary theory. Teaching "critical analysis" is viewed as a means of teaching all the ID arguments without using that label. It also picks up the themes of the teach the controversy strategy, emphasizing what they say are the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolutionary theory and "arguments against evolution," which they falsely portray as "a theory in crisis." Critics state about the wedge strategy that its "ultimate goal is to create a theocratic state". See also Intelligent design movement Kansas evolution hearings Santorum Amendment Scientific materialism Footnotes References External links A scan of the original wedge document (pdf format) Tim Rhodes puts a text copy of the wedge on the Internet The Wedge Document The "Wedge" Archives at the Access Research Network website. The Wedge Strategy: So What? The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream Chapter 1 of the book Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics by Barbara Forrest, Ph.D. MIT Press, 2001 The Wedge: Breaking the Modernist Monopoly on Science by Phillip E. Johnson. Originally published in Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. July/August 1999. Wedging Creationism into the Academy. Proponents of a controversial theory struggle to gain purchase within academia. A case study of the quest for academic legitimacy. By Barbara Forrest and Glenn Branch. 2005. Published in Academe. Southern Baptist Convention 1998 webpage about "The Wedge" Creationism Intelligent design movement Intelligent design controversies Discovery Institute campaigns Conservatism in the United States Right-wing politics in the United States Theocracy Strategy