Posted on 01/20/2006 9:45:31 AM PST by memetic
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.
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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.
The ID movement sometimes presents Catholicism, the world's largest Christian denomination, as an ally in its campaign. While the Church is socially conservative, it has a long theological tradition that rejects fundamentalist creationism...
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Those evil secularists over there in the Vatican, they must be stopped!
Already posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561170/posts
Don't forget, there are an awful lot of Ph.D's over at the Vatican.
Bump for later,
My son is debating this very topic, "should ID be taught in public schools", in his HS debate class. He'll be able to use this source.
Semper Fidelis
I agree that ID shouldn't be taught in a science class, but what can and should be taught are doubts, controversies, and holes in Darwinist evolutionary speculation.
What else in the Bible does the Catholic Church reject?
This church excommunicated Galileo for his observations the sun is in the center of the solar system so their record on pronouncements of a scientific nature is far from "infallible"
>>This church excommunicated Galileo for his observations the sun is in the center
Wrong. This happened because Galileo refused to treat his observations as theories. Instead he went around teaching them as irrefutable fact.
Had Galeleo simply admitted his theory was a theory and treated it as such, he would have been fine. The church was not opposed to his theory, the Church just wanted to be sure it was in fact, the truth.
This was an issue of obedience to the church about how his theory was presented, not about the theory itself. The church never demand that he recant his theory, only that he treat it as such.
Aw jeez, not that crap again! Please check out the original thread where that subject was discussed.
Well the sun is in the center and thats a fact. Your spin on this is farcical. The Church leaders were unknowingly in ignorance of the scientific facts, and as such, rejected his scientific observations out of hand and with close-minded malice and hubris, wrongfully tossed him out of the Church. Goalie couldn't have postulated a theory because his observations closed the issue and to pay homage to the unknowing Church leaders and promote a lie would have been highly unethical on his part. One doesn't subvert thuth in the face of ignorance and remain on the moral high ground.
Besides, evolution is pure science, and has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with atheism or secular humanism. We are not trying to protect this premise of human existence because we have an agenda. Our only agenda is the search for truth.
This is why we are open to discussion and debate from anyone, anywhere, anytime. That is of course so long as we have not deemed you unqualified based on your narrow religious view of the world, which is premised on a supreme creator. Since such an idea cannot be observed and tested like macro evolution can . . . err, uh, I mean it could be if we had the time to . . . but it is unquestionable that it is a scientific fact . . .blablablablablabla. /SARCASM
Well, you had me going there for a second...
Sorry to get your blood pressure up. I seldom resort to this tactic when trying to make a point. I have learned that people are seldom going to change their opinion on this matter based on an argument, so I really don't spend time debating it.
What irritates me is the unwillingness of some to allow open discussion of the issue. So long as there is a theory to explain human existence, competing ideas should not be foreclosed.
Its like some people want to make sure that children from public schools don't question that they are merely highly evolved animals. The religion of secular humanism has been packaged as science, and then rammed into the heads of school children free of competition. Their agenda is obvious, and I will not stand for it.
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