Pope Bashes Intelligent Design
It’s a constant refrain from people sent into a tailspin by my criticisms of “intelligent design” creationism: I’m “bashing Christians,” they claim.
Well, here’s another person who’s “bashing Christians:” Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin.
A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. “In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as created by God,” said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a “higher power” for the complexities of life.
Why does the Pope hate Christians?
Frank says: