Vatican makes Discovery Institute cry

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Brandon Haught

Gotta love it. Rome meeting snubs intelligent design, creationism.

Organizers of the five-day conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University said Thursday that they barred intelligent design proponents because they wanted an intellectually rigorous conference on science, theology and philosophy to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.”

While there are some Darwinian dissenters present, intelligent design didn’t fit the bill, they said.

“We think that it’s not a scientific prospective, nor a theological or philosophical one,” said the Rev. Marc Leclerc, the conference director and a professor of philosophy of nature at the Gregorian. “This makes a dialogue very difficult, maybe impossible.”

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One Response to Vatican makes Discovery Institute cry

  1. James F says:
    March 5, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    They were in very appropriate company:

    Oktar Babuna, a representative of a prominent Turkish creationist, Harun Yahya, was denied the right to speak at the opening session Tuesday. Participants took the microphone away from Babuna when, during a question-and-answer session, he challenged them to give proof of transitional forms of animals in Darwinian evolution.

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