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There was a controversy because of a Professor Siegfried Scherer, who was initially invited to take part in the so called "Erfurter Dialog" in 2005. Althaus cancelled that invitation due to complaints by another invitee, evolutionary biologist and humanist Ulrich Kutschera. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]