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Gotta love it. Rome meeting snubs intelligent design, creationism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

While there are some Darwinian dissenters present, intelligent design didn’t fit the bill, they said.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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