Re: Vatican gives nod to evolution

Schonborn has a lengthier and quite interesting article about this in
January's First Things (
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0601/articles/schonborn.html).
Stephen Barr has an excellent and equally interesting response to Schonborn
in this month's First Things (no link available yet, but I blogged about it
here: http://www.davidopderbeck.com/archives/2006/01/the_miracle_of.html)

On 1/18/06, Pim van Meurs <pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> <quote>
> Although not presented as an official church position, the Vatican
> newspaper published an article this week labeling as "correct" the decision
> by a judge in Pennsylvania last month that the concept of intelligent design
> could not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution.
> </quote>
>
> and
>
> <quote>
> In October, Schönborn sought to clarify his remarks, saying that he meant
> to question not the science of evolution but what he called "evolutionism,"
> or an attempt to use the theory to rule out the hand of God in creation.
>
> "I see no difficulty in joining belief in the creator with the theory of
> evolution, but under the prerequisite that the borders of scientific theory
> are maintained," the cardinal said in a speech in Vienna.
>
> In the Osservatore article, Facchini similarly wrote that scientists could
> not rule out a divine "superior design" to creation and the history of ma
> nkind. But he said that Catholic thought did not rule out that that design
> could take place through an evolutionary process.
>
> "God's project of creation can be carried out through secondary causes in
> the natural course of events, without having to think of miraculous
> interventions that point in this or that direction," he wrote.
> </quote>
> Read more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/18/news/evolution.php
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 19 07:31:55 2006