Here Comes the Vatican
According to the Free Market News the Vatican may now be getting involved in the Intelligent Design vs. Evolution debate. On the side of Darwin and Evolution!
FMN reports that Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is quoted by Australiannews.com as saying the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution are "perfectly compatible" if the Bible is read correctly.
And, in a direct attack on the creationist campaigners in America, Poupard allegedly said "The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim."
Poupard also reportedly declared that the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator."
Personally I think the message in Genesis is related more toward the sort of trivial "disobedience is a bad thing" message and the more insightful "knowledge can be dangerous" message, but I can live with the Cardinal's interpretation.
Supposedly Poupard made his remarks at a Vatican News Conference and they have been interpreted in Italy as a flat out rejection of "Intelligent Design" by the Vatican.
Cardinal Poupard has a history of trying to smoothe out science and Christianity. At a conference on "Science, Faith and Culture" held at Oxford University in March of this year he called for "a strong alliance between reason and faith."
The Catholic Church "gets it." With religion getting hammered in Europe the church realizes that it can't afford to buck heads with a growing secular culture firmly rooted in the acceptance of technology and science.
In the United States, or at least in certain regions of the United States, the picture isn't as clear and religion, based upon a resurgence of conservativism, believes it can win a confrontation with the secular wing and science. Somehow I doubt it.
Progress and technology tend to be pervasive and, although at times a hitch or two is encountered, usually move inexorably forward. We accept, and are dependent upon, things today that even 50 years ago would have been unthinkable! While one can debate the benefit of some so-called "progress," we tend to accept all of it in the long run.
Science and technology march on and, ultimately, anyone, or anything, which tries to block its path will get ground under. It's only a matter of time.
The Catholic Church "gets it." American Evangelicals don't.
FMN reports that Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is quoted by Australiannews.com as saying the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution are "perfectly compatible" if the Bible is read correctly.And, in a direct attack on the creationist campaigners in America, Poupard allegedly said "The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim."
Poupard also reportedly declared that the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator."
Personally I think the message in Genesis is related more toward the sort of trivial "disobedience is a bad thing" message and the more insightful "knowledge can be dangerous" message, but I can live with the Cardinal's interpretation.
Supposedly Poupard made his remarks at a Vatican News Conference and they have been interpreted in Italy as a flat out rejection of "Intelligent Design" by the Vatican.
Cardinal Poupard has a history of trying to smoothe out science and Christianity. At a conference on "Science, Faith and Culture" held at Oxford University in March of this year he called for "a strong alliance between reason and faith."
The Catholic Church "gets it." With religion getting hammered in Europe the church realizes that it can't afford to buck heads with a growing secular culture firmly rooted in the acceptance of technology and science.
In the United States, or at least in certain regions of the United States, the picture isn't as clear and religion, based upon a resurgence of conservativism, believes it can win a confrontation with the secular wing and science. Somehow I doubt it.
Progress and technology tend to be pervasive and, although at times a hitch or two is encountered, usually move inexorably forward. We accept, and are dependent upon, things today that even 50 years ago would have been unthinkable! While one can debate the benefit of some so-called "progress," we tend to accept all of it in the long run.
Science and technology march on and, ultimately, anyone, or anything, which tries to block its path will get ground under. It's only a matter of time.
The Catholic Church "gets it." American Evangelicals don't.
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