This is the simply the Vatican trying to officially distance themselves 
from the political fall-out of ID, while supporting the ideological 
essence of it.

(and is the author blaming 'the protestants' for the Inquisition?)

Note that the last sentence 'rejects' modern evolutionary theory, which 
is what the code-word 'neo-Darwinism' must be read to mean: Simpson, 
Dobzhansky, Mayr, Gould, Eldredge, Dawkins, et al.


'science and theology act in different fields' - indeed. one reality 
based, the other imaginary.

-L.D.


On Nov 13, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Greenwich wrote:

> 	He argued that the real mes-
> sage of Genesis was that the Universe
> did not make itself, and had a creator.
> “Science and theology act in different
> fields, each in its own.” In Rome, the
> immediate reaction was that this was
> a Vatican rejection of the fundamental-
> ist American doctrine of “intelligent
> design”. No doubt the Vatican does want
> to separate itself from American crea-
> tionists, but the significance surely
> goes further than that. This is not
> another Galileo case; the teachings of
> the Church have never imposed a literal
> interpretation of the language of the
> Bible; that was a Protestant mistake.
> Nor did the Church condemn the theory
> of evolution, though it did and does
> reject neo-Darwinism when that is made
> specifically atheist....

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