"Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 01/19/06 | Tom Heneghan

[peyton randolph]

PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support for evolution with an article praising a U.S. court decision that rejects the "intelligent design" theory as non-scientific.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said that teaching intelligent design -- which argues that life is so complex that it needed a supernatural creator -- alongside Darwin's theory of evolution would only cause confusion...

A court in the state of Pennsylvania last month barred a school from teaching intelligent design (ID), a blow to Christian conservatives who want it to be taught in biology classes along with the Darwinism they oppose.

[peyton randolph]

How interesting.

[kenboy]

How weird is it that the best way to be sure your kids get a good science education is to send them to Catholic school?

[MineralMan]

Counting down for the first Catholic-bashing post. 1...2...3

[peyton randolph]

*PING*

[linear]

Maybe a supernatural creator was the first one to come up with evolution, and Darwin just figured out a small part of what the creator was doing.

[Frank_Discussion]

When did this become a Howard Dean thread?

[MineralMan]

"Maybe a supernatural creator was the first one to come up with evolution, and Darwin just figured out a small part of what the creator was doing."

That's what a lot of Christians believe, including the Pope, I think. Stick around, though...this will be an interesting thread.

[MineralMan]

I hope that's not a self-portrait.

[onedoug]

"Intelligent design" not science

Neither is "evolution".

[linear]

Threads about hotly debated but ultimately unprovable concepts are always interesting. lol

[flashbunny]

no, just anticipating what will happen to many people here when they read this article.

[politicket]

Counting down for the first Catholic-bashing post. 1...2...3

Shouldn't that be 3....2....1 if you're counting down?

I hope that the rest of your "science" isn't backwards as well...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The entire evolution vs ID debate is an aberration caused by the fact that freedom of speech, or any other kind of freedom, has been eliminated in government schools.

ID was invented as a way of combatting the fact that public schools have become little more than Demo(n)cRAT indoctrination camps.

[ElectricStrawberry]

"Intelligent design" not science

I don't need the Vatican to tell me that ID isn't science...or anything else about science.

[flashbunny]

uh, yes it is. Perhaps you should look up exactly what 'science' is.

[MineralMan]

"I learned very young that the Catholic Church accepted evolution. Is this new?"

No, it's not new. Most of the traditional Christian churches do the same. I was taught that evolution was how the deity created species in the Presbyterian church as a youngster.

However, many of the latter-day evangelical churches are sola scriptura and reject evolution.

[conservativebabe]

Really? I was born a Catholic and spent many childhood years in the church. I never knew this. Guess I missed that lesson in Catechism.

[MineralMan]

Ah, it appears that your image is no more on the thread. Pity.