Yes you re right theologically Catholicism is very different to American protestantism which gave birth to the creationist movement and are certainly not interested in the sort of fundamentalist theocracy that most of them want Sure they use the teleological argument but phrase it in theological language which is a lot different from scientific language and hence it isn t pseudoscience which is what irks me as a scientist But I don t understand theology probably because I ve been trained to think too scientifically And the Catholic Church most of the time has better things to do than make statements on scientific issues But Catholics are really into authority so what the hierarchy says goes Dunc