The August 25, 2007 version of the ""Darwin Dissent"" petition includes the names of both Axe and Gauger. Gauger's affiliation on the August 25, 2007 version of the petition is not the "Biologic Institute", but Gauger's "alma mater", the University of Washington. Dixon is the president and sole employee of the Lifeworks Foundation, which in 2006 made $700,000 in donations to the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and of $30,000 to Baylor University for one of its engineering professors, Robert J. Marks II, to employ intelligent design proponent William Dembski as a postdoctoral researcher within the Evolutionary Informatics Lab he was forming. Thereafter, Baylor shut the lab down, deleted its website and returned the grant, in an incident that the Discovery Institute is publicising as one of their campaigns claiming discrimination. "New Scientist" magazine sent a reporter to the "Biologic Institute" facilities in late 2006 to investigate. The reporter, Celeste Biever, was given a fairly chilly reception and found few willing to speak to her about their research. Although the "New Scientist" article was somewhat negative, the "Discovery Institute" touted it as unequivocal evidence that the "Biologic Institute" is engaging in scientific research. The only one of the four "Biologic Institute" directors willing to speak to "New Scientist" reporter Biever was George Weber, a retired member of the business faculty at Whitworth University, a private Christian college associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Spokane, Washington. Weber belongs to the Spokane chapter of Reasons To Believe, an evangelical Christian creationist organization. Weber stated that, ""We are the first ones doing what we might call lab science in intelligent design"" and ""The objective is to challenge the scientific community on naturalism."" After speaking to "New Scientist", Weber left the board of the "Biologic Institute". Axe explained in an email to Biever that this was because Weber ""was found to have seriously misunderstood the purpose of Biologic and to have misrepresented it"." The "Discovery Institute" stated in October 2006 that intelligent design research is being conducted by the institute in secret to avoid the scrutiny of the scientific community. Nevertheless, Biever was able to discover that The Biologic Institute is working on "examining the origin of metabolic pathways in bacteria, the evolution of gene order in bacteria, and the evolution of protein folds" and computational biology. "New Scientist" also wrote an editorial in the same issue as its 2006 report of the "Biologic Institute" activities, titled ""It's still all about religion"".