[memetic]

This seems to clarify somemuddled talk on the issue.

[Paradox]

Those evil secularists over there in the Vatican, they must be stopped!

[highball]

Already posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561170/posts

[marine86297]

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

[My2Cents]

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.

[My2Cents]

While the Church is socially conservative, it has a long theological tradition that rejects fundamentalist creationism...

What else in the Bible does the Catholic Church reject?

[brainstem223]

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"

[Clump]

The goal of tolerance and diversity of ideas in academia notwithstanding, evolution is the only theory that should be allowed to be discussed, mentioned, or even thought about. We are so confident that everything seen is the product of time and chance that further discussion cannot be tolerated.

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