Cardinal backs evolution and "intelligent design"
Reuters - Science ^ | 2005-10-04
Posted on 10/04/2005 12:21:01 PM PDT by Junior
Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation and in evolution because one was a question of religion and the other of science, two realms that complimented rather than contradicted each other.
Schoenborn's view, presented in a lecture published by his office on Tuesday, tempered earlier statements that seemed to ally the Church with United States conservatives campaigning against the teaching of evolution in public schools.
A court in Pennsylvania is now hearing a suit brought by parents against a school district that teaches intelligent design -- the view that life is so complex some higher being must have designed it -- alongside evolution in biology class.
"Without a doubt, Darwin pulled off quite a feat with his main work and it remains one of the very great works of intellectual history," Schoenborn declared in a lecture in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on Sunday.
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The Cardinal explains this, " Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.”
in the traditional Catholic way, "Science studies what is observable and scientists overstep the boundaries of their discipline when they conclude evolution proves there was no creator"
Science is not equipped to find or disprove a designer and it is obvious the good Cardinal understands this.
Unfortunately Richard Sternberg didn't. The man abused his position and cheated in order to insert his secterian views into a science journal. People like this do the cause of Christ harm.