This thread is about the Pope! a little bit.

stefstef
edited February 2006 in General
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/18/ap/world/mainD8F7BDS03.shtml

The Pope (and new Catholic documents) even call Intelligent Design 'not a science' and condemn its teaching alongside Darwinian Evolution in schools.

Comments

  • mariomario
    edited January 2006
    But he [Facchini] concluded: "In a vision that goes beyond the empirical horizon, we can say that we aren't men by chance or by necessity, and that the human experience has a sense and a direction signaled by a superior design."

    This guy is one cool professor of evolutionary biology!
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited January 2006
    Bravo, Pope!
  • kukopankikukopanki
    edited January 2006
    Umm, the old Pope, John Paul II said the same thing years ago, just so you know. Catholic Church has never (ok, not recently) been pro-Intelligent Design.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited January 2006
    so? it's the here and now that counts!!
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited January 2006
    I'm sorry, I was going to say something that may possibly have been intelligent, but Jakey's awesome avatar has hypnotized me into forgetting.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited January 2006
    I think you need to look at your own avatar before you accuse someone else of being hypnotic.


    It's nice to see the pope laying down the law.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited January 2006
    I think it'd be cooler to see him laying down some 'phat beats'.

    Well I'd laugh.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited January 2006
    I think the universe would implode from awesome overload if the pope did that.


    I think I just inadvertantly laid down some "phat rhymes".
  • mittensmittens
    edited February 2006
    And perhaps added some "phat cells" from eating?

    Too far?

    Damn.
  • WafflesWaffles
    edited February 2006
    we shouldn't speculate, you know, because we could never lay it down papal stahl like him.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited February 2006
    I like this guy. He understands science.

    "Some parts of the universe are too complex" is not a scientific answer.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited February 2006
    I stand by my thought that evolution does not go contrary to the Bible.
  • kukopankikukopanki
    edited February 2006
    Yes, me too. Religiously speaking, I prefer the concept of a God that is constantly improving and working on His Creation (evolution) to the concept of a God that simple created everything as it is, and then decided to be lazy and do nothing for the rest of eternity.
  • WafflesWaffles
    edited February 2006
    I find the idea of a napping deity is somewhat endearing.
  • CarnivoreCarnivore
    edited February 2006
    God is just the one with the root password to the universe.

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