Vatican Newspaper Rejects ID “Science”
This report discusses an important move by the Vatican which reiterates its commitment to maintaining a respectable division between faith and science. Quote:
In an editorial by Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, Italy, the newspaper said proponents of intelligent design improperly blurred the lines between science and faith to make their case that certain forms of biological life are too complex to have evolved through Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
“If the model proposed by Darwin is held to be inadequate, one should look for another model. But it is not correct methodology to stray from the field of science pretending to do science,” Facchini wrote.
Can I get an Amen?
January 20th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Amen….
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January 23rd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
“Facchini’s article in Rome appeared to assuage those concerns, explaining that ’science as such, with its methods, can neither demonstrate nor exclude that a superior design has been carried out.’”
What an excellent summary. Would that it were exactly true. Dogmatic atheists and fundies of all stripes seem never abide by the non-overlapping-ness of science and religion.
But hopefully this move by the catholic church will help clarify some issues.
January 26th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
AMEN! I find the whole debate so absurd I’ve just been looking the other way. Your posts are particularly eloquent on the subject. Thank you.