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Titolo: Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper (Reuters)

Speriamo che stavolta gli ultimi soldati giapponesi del NG si 
convincano... che l'ID *non e' la posizionedel Vaticano...
Am.
Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor  1 hour, 47 minutes ago
PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support 
for evolution with an article praising a U.S. court decision that 
rejects the "intelligent design" theory as non-scientific.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said that teaching 
intelligent design -- which argues that life is so complex that it 
needed a supernatural creator -- alongside Darwin's theory of evolution 
would only cause confusion.
A court in the state of Pennsylvania last month barred a school from 
teaching intelligent design (ID), a blow to Christian conservatives who 
want it to be taught in biology classes along with the Darwinism they 
oppose.
The ID movement sometimes presents Catholicism, the world's largest 
Christian denomination, as an ally in its campaign. While the Church is 
socially conservative, it has a long theological tradition that rejects 
fundamentalist creationism.
"Intelligent design does not belong to science and there is no 
justification for the demand it be taught as a scientific theory 
alongside the Darwinian explanation," said the article in the Tuesday 
edition of the newspaper.
Evolution represents "the interpretative key of the history of life on 
Earth" and the debate in the United States was "polluted by political 
positions," wrote Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary 
biology at Italy's Bologna University.
"So the decision by the Pennsylvania judge seems correct."
EVOLUTION CONFUSION
Confusion about the Catholic view of evolution arose last year when 
both the newly elected Pope Benedict and his former student, Cardinal 
Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, said humans were part of an intelligent 
project designed by God.
An article by Schoenborn in the New York Times in July seemed to signal 
a Church shift toward intelligent design because it played down a 1996 
statement by Pope John Paul that evolution was "more than a hypothesis."
This triggered a wave of "Vatican rejects Darwin" headlines and attacks 
from scientists, Catholics among them, who argued that had been proved 
man evolved from lower beings.
Schoenborn later made it clear the Church accepted evolution as solid 
science but objected to the way some Darwinists concluded that it 
proved God did not exist and could "explain everything from the Big 
Bang to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."
The Church, which has never rejected evolution, teaches that God 
created the world and the natural laws by which life developed. Even 
its best-known dissident, Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, echoed this in a 
recent book in Germany.
Schoenborn said he spoke up because he shared Benedict's concern, 
stated just before his election last April, that a "dictatorship of 
relativism" was trying to deny God's existence.
TENET OF FAITH
Pennsylvania Judge John Jones ruled that intelligent design was a 
version of creationism, the belief that God made the world in six days 
as told in the Bible, and thus could not be taught without violating a 
ban on teaching religion in public schools.
It was not science, despite claims by its backers, he said.
This literal reading of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is a 
tenet of faith for evangelical Protestants, a group that has become 
politically influential in the United States.
Many U.S. Catholics may agree with evangelicals politically, but the 
Church does not share their theology on this point. Intelligent design 
has few supporters outside the United States.
While not an official document, the article in L'Osservatore Romano had 
to be vetted in advance to reflect Vatican thinking.
The Seattle-based Discovery Institute -- the main think tank of the ID 
movement -- said on its website that reading the Osservatore article 
that way amounted to an attempt "to put words in the Vatican's mouth."


Bravo. Sono contenta che ci sei arrivato anche tu, visto che sprizzi
commenti anticlericali anche verso chi accetta queste teorie sull'ID
(il nesso, a questo punto, dovresti spiegarlo tu) e critichi la mia
posizione di separazione tra scienza e fede, che poi è la stessa dei
migliori teologi sulla piazza!
Gùd lack! <g>

 Gůd lack! <g>
YAWN! Che la mano sinistra non sappia cosa fa la mano destra... Bella 
la vita,eh?
Mi chiedo che cosa fa l'amabile Father Coyne, gia' direttore della 
Specola Vaticana quando difende a spada tratta l'Evoluzione in USA.
Credo che sia lui che ha 'ottenuto' la dichiarazione del Vaticano. 
Ah,sti gesuiti, sempre a rompere...
Am.
(abortista e assassino)

 (abortista e assassino)
Il tuo anticlericalismo ti rende cieco.
Trova un mio post in cui sostengo l'ID e/o in cui dico che la Chiesa lo
sostiene (in maniera ufficiale o meno).
Riguardo alle tue obiezioni sulla separazione tra scienza e fede, ho
rilevato che di teologia  non capisci una mazza e non hai capito manco
quello che volevo dire; in realtà si poteva considerare (la mia) una
critica al creazionismo e a certi estremismi.
Complimenti comunque per la sgusciata da anguilla in questa reply, Am.
Sarai una star per i capitoni.