Re: [asa] New Design-Evolution Book from Cardinal Shoenborn

At 08:28 AM 12/4/2007, David Opderbeck wrote:

>Has anyone seen Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn's new book, "Chance or
>Purpose?"
>(<http://www.amazon.com/Chance-Purpose-Creation-Evolution-Rational/dp/1586172123/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product>http://www.amazon.com/Chance-Purpose-Creation-Evolution-Rational/dp/1586172123/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product
>) Looks like a very interesting effort to bridge ID and TE --
>blurbed by both Owen Gingerich and Michael Behe.

@ I checked it out - it does look interesting.

Here's some background references (a discussion on ASA list) for
those interested.

Mon Nov 21 2005 - 02:16:49 EST
Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row

http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0403.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0410.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0412.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0440.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0442.html

Re: impassibility (was Re: Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent
Design row)
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0447.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200511/0454.html

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September 12, 2006 | John-Henry Westen
Pope Preaches Against Chance Evolution: "Man is Not the Chance Result
of Evolution"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1700483/posts

REGENSBURG, Germany, September 12, 2006 - This morning Pope Benedict
XVI discussed evolution in his homily at the outdoor Mass celebrated
in Islinger Field. In a direct attack on the concept of random chance
evolution, Pope Benedict asked rhetorically: "What came first?
Creative Reason, the Spirit who makes all things and gives them
growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, yet somehow brings
forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason."

The Pope explained that the belief in God as Creator comes in the
most ancient profession of faith known to Christians, the Apostles'
Creed. "As Christians, we say: I believe in God the Father, the
Creator of heaven and earth - I believe in the Creator Spirit. We
believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with
Reason and not Unreason," he said.

While faith is not opposed to science, the Pope noted that some
scientific endeavor is aimed at opposing faith. "From the
Enlightenment on, science, at least in part, has applied itself to
seeking an explanation of the world in which God would be
unnecessary," he said. The Pope added, "And if this were so, he (God)
would also become unnecessary in our lives."

Man, "would then be nothing more than a chance result of evolution
and thus, in the end, equally meaningless," said the Pope.

However, Benedict XVI, noted assuredly that attempts to show God as
unnecessary in the explanation of the universe are futile. "But
whenever the attempt seemed to be nearing success - inevitably it
would become clear: something is missing from the equation!," he
said. "When God is subtracted, something doesn't add up for man, the
world, the whole vast universe."

~Janice

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Received on Tue Dec 4 12:32:12 2007