SON OF HARRY HOPE
2006-08-30 16:30:41 UTC
VATICAN CITY, Vatican City (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI may reportedly
embrace the theory of intelligent design, possibly heralding a
fundamental shift in the Vatican's view of evolution.
Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals are to meet with the
pope this week at his summer palace near Rome to discuss the issue,
The Guardian reported Monday.
Advocates of the theory argue the universe and living things are so
complex they must be a product of intelligent design rather than
natural selection. Critics say the theory is a disguise for
creationism.
Vatican officials last week announced evolution and creation would be
the topics for this year's meeting of the pope's Schulerkreis -- a
group consisting mainly of his former doctoral students that has been
gathering annually since the late 1970s, The Guardian said.
Pope Benedict raised the issue during the inaugural sermon of his
pontificate, saying, "We are not the accidental product, without
meaning, of evolution."
We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly
acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned."
--Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) 23rd US President
embrace the theory of intelligent design, possibly heralding a
fundamental shift in the Vatican's view of evolution.
Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals are to meet with the
pope this week at his summer palace near Rome to discuss the issue,
The Guardian reported Monday.
Advocates of the theory argue the universe and living things are so
complex they must be a product of intelligent design rather than
natural selection. Critics say the theory is a disguise for
creationism.
Vatican officials last week announced evolution and creation would be
the topics for this year's meeting of the pope's Schulerkreis -- a
group consisting mainly of his former doctoral students that has been
gathering annually since the late 1970s, The Guardian said.
Pope Benedict raised the issue during the inaugural sermon of his
pontificate, saying, "We are not the accidental product, without
meaning, of evolution."
We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly
acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned."
--Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) 23rd US President