Catholic Church still dabbling in ID position
February 4th, 2006“Intelligent design” belittles God, says Vatican astronomer: “February 1, 2006: The director of the Vatican Observatory, Father George V. Coyne S.J., delivered a talk in which he argued that ‘the Intelligent Design (ID) movement, while evoking a God of power and might, a designer God, actually belittles God’ on January 31, 2006.”
It looks like Catholic scientists in the upper echelons of the Church power structure continue to argue forcefully and publicly for Darwinian evolution over Intelligent design. From the standpoint that the Catholic Church actually has a significant number of scientists who are also clerics, I think it’s likely that we won’t see this pope wade too far into the ID debate beyond what he’s already said about the “intelligent experiment.”
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