You're probably right about JPII wanting to please the mighty scientists, though. Look how the Pope felt a need to be so obsequious about the Soviet Union.
I know what Pope St. Pius X taught and truth does not change.
I also know Charles I's (blessed king and martyr to some) scaffold speech and I bet you don't. The substance (which includes a defense of the divine right of kings but also an eloquent defense of individual liberty and property and of the notion that the liberty and property of each citizen was the most sacred trust imposed upon the king by God. If you did, you'd have some respect for him. That does not make me a monarchist but I would prefer to live under Charles I as an absolute monarch rather than under Pelosi, Clinton or Clinton. Charles I had everything to do with Western Civilization and nothing whatever to do with apeman theories. If you disagree, we will just have to disagree. It isn't as if I live for your approval or anything. I assume that you are practical enough not to live for mine. Good thing too since you won't get it at the current rate.