Big Bang?

[Otto]

VIENNA The Catholic stance 
 
Ever since 1996, when Pope John Paul II said that evolution (a term he 
did not define) was "more than just a hypothesis," defenders of 
neo-Darwinian dogma have often invoked the supposed acceptance - or at 
least acquiescence - of the Roman Catholic Church when they defend their 
theory as somehow compatible with Christian faith.
 
But this is not true. The Catholic Church, while leaving to science many 
details about the history of life on earth, proclaims that by the light 
of reason the human intellect can readily and clearly discern purpose 
and design in the natural world, including the world of living things.
 
Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution 
in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided process of random variation and 
natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks 
to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is 
ideology, not science.
 
Finding design in evolution
Christoph Schönborn The New York Times, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2005
(Christoph Schönborn, the Roman Catholic cardinal archbishop of Vienna, 
was the lead editor of the official 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church.)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/07/opinion/edschon.php

	

	
		
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