When you can't get the Vatican on your side...

...you clearly don't have much of a case.

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible" if the Bible were read correctly.
His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see evolution and the Genesis account as mutually exclusive.

I guess now the Vatican, or the Catholic hierarchy here in the US, will name those Catholic politicians who have come out in support of teaching intelligent design, and claim that they are bad Catholics, and ask that they be denied communion. I mean, that's what they did to John Kerry.

Many, many devout believers also believe in the scientific method, observable evidence and the idea that evolution exists irrespective of the literal word of the Bible. The two positions can be reconciled. The intelligent design crowd rejects all of this. And now the Vatican has rejected them.