[MD] Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Marsha, when I saw the positive comments about the compatibility /
complementarity of religion & science, I though this was just a bit
more PR rhetoric from the catholic church, but actually there are some
interesting signs in there ...

" ... at first it had even been proposed to ban Intelligent Design
from the event, as “poor theology and poor science”. Intelligent
Design would be discussed at the fringes of the conference at the
Pontifical Gregorian University, but merely as a “cultural
phenomenon”, rather than a scientific or theological issue, organisers
said."

At least trying to untangle the cultural and intelectual angles of the debate.
Interesting
Ian

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
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> A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin's theory of evolution was
> compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine
> and St Thomas Aquinas. "In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as
> created by God," said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical
> Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation
> that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of
> Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a "higher power" for the
> complexities of life.
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> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5705331.ece?Submitted=true
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