Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Via dal Vaticano Dr. George Coyne (good riddance)

Vatican Astronomer Replaced
Pope Benedict XVI has replaced an evangelizing Darwinist, Dr. George
Coyne, as director the Vatican Observatory, according to Zenit News. A
Jesuit with a doctorate in astronomy, Dr. Coyne in recent years made
himself the public scourge of Darwin critics and scientific proponents
of intelligent design. Increasingly his theology resembled that of
"process theologians" who believe that God is still learning and could
not have known what his world was becoming.
While media tended to avoid the pro-design statements of the pope over
the past year (see "Is the Pope Catholic?"), they frequently sited the
hostile remarks of Dr. Coyne, sitting at his office at the University
of Arizona, as supposedly representing those of "the Vatican." That
could not have been well-received at the Vatican in Rome. Rumors that
Coyne might be replaced have circulated for months.
In the past year since he criticized the pro-design essay of Austrian
Cardinal Schoenborn in the NY Times, Dr. Coyne has been feted at a
number of unlikely gatherings where his job was to express Church
support for Darwinism. At a meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Coyne pronounced in favor of a "fertile
universe" where "chance and destiny embrace." The notes handed out for
a talk given by Coyne by that title state:
    If we take the results of modern science seriously, it is
difficult to believe that God is omnipotent and omniscient in the
sense of the scholastic philosophers. Science tells us of a god who
must be very different from God as seen by the medieval philosophers
and theologians. Let us ask the hard question. Could, for instance,
God after a billion years in a fourteen billion year old universe have
predicted that human life would come to be? Let us suppose that God
possessed the theory of everything, knew all the laws of physics, all
the fundamental forces. Even then could God know with certainty that
human life would come to be? If we truly accept the scientific view
that, in addition to necessary processes and the immense opportunities
offered by the universe, there are also chance processes, then it
would appear that not even God could know the outcome with certainty.
God cannot know what is not knowable.
    (The Dance of the Fertile Universe by George V. Coyne, S.J.)
However, what even Fr. Coyne himself apparently could not know is that
the Catholic Church, while endlessly tolerant of theological
deviations these days, can't really have someone whose views
contradict those of the Church representing himself around the world
as "the Vatican."
The new director of the Vatican Observatory is Dr. Jose Gabriel Funes,
also an astronomer and a Jesuit--an Argentine rather than an Arizonan
like Fr. Coyne.
Posted by Bruce Chapman on August 21, 2006 7:02 PM
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 God cannot know what is not knowable.
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