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Science News Article | Reuters.com: "'Intelligent design does not belong to science and there is no justification for the demand it be taught as a scientific theory alongside the Darwinian explanation,' said the article in the Tuesday edition of the newspaper.

Evolution represents 'the interpretative key of the history of life on Earth' and the debate in the United States was 'polluted by political positions', wrote Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at Italy's Bologna University.
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While not an official document, the article in L'Osservatore Romano had to be vetted in advance to reflect Vatican thinking.

The Seattle-based Discovery Institute -- the main think tank of the ID movement -- said on its website that reading the Osservatore article that way amounted to an attempt "to put words in the Vatican's mouth". "