Ethics

DI Blames Templeton for Catholic Snub

By Ed Brayton

How bad has it gotten for the Discovery Institute? So bad that they have to spend their time whining about the fact that even the Catholic Church won't let them play in any reindeer games.

A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren't invited to participate: those espousing creationism and intelligent design...

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."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).