The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
"Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."
Intelligent design is not science. Let's stop pretending. Feel free to teach creationism in a comparative religion classes.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Amen!
ReplyDeleteThe Vatican's astrologer and the Vatican's Observatory do not actually speak for the Vatican. The Vatican's astrologer can state what the Vatican's current position is, but he is not actually doing so in the article.
ReplyDeleteThe Vatican though does not condemn evolution either. Only a few people can actually speak for the Vatican, and they tend to wear either all white and tall hats or all red.