I posted recently on the meeting convening at the Vatican on the “reconciliation” of evolution and religion, and how hilariously dumbfounding some of the arguments proposed are, seeing as they’re selectively excluding portions of the scientific method, or applications thereof, to make their case. Well, it turns out that I’m not the only one taking notice of exclusion. According to the AP:

The Discovery Institute, the main organization supporting intelligent design research, says it was shut out from presenting its views because the meeting was funded in part by the John Templeton Foundation, a major U.S. nonprofit that has criticized the intelligent design movement.

This is just too much… Really… It’s like the Discovery Institute’s sole objective is to provide the world with comedic relief. Whether or not the John Templeton Foundation is behind the shut-out is irrelevant – they probably were – what is just too much to handle is how they bitch about not being included in a function whose stated purpose was to demonstrate the ability of religion and evolution to coexist (Hint: they failed…), not intelligent design and religion. But wait, it gets even better:

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.

Organizers said he hadn’t formulated a question and was just stating his point of view.

Babuna said afterward that the conference was clearly undemocratic. A statement from Yahya said, “Although there are discussion parts, they want this discussion to be one-sided.”

Babuna, at what point in time in the history of the Catholic Church was it a democratic entity?

Furthermore, where is pimp daddy boss Harun Yahya? Oh, I know. He was off inventing new color variations for his book…