Current Events, Theology Thoughts

Vatican: “Charles Darwin Was On The Right Track”

The nail has been driven and the hatchet buried – not necessarily in that order..

Burying the hatchet:

This week the Vatican released a statement that “Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas.”

This means that Charles Darwin is back in the Pope’s graces – wait a minute… I thought Darwin belonged to the Church of England?

“The Church of England is seeking to bring Darwin back into the fold with a page on its website paying tribute to his “forgotten” work in his local parish, to illustrate how science and Church need not be at odds.”

Never mind… Undecided

Driving the nail:[@more@]

Organisers of a papal-backed conference next month marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species said that at first it had even been proposed to ban Intelligent Design from the event, as “poor theology and poor science”

So much for Genesis…  Undecided

Above quotes are from Richard Owen's article originally published in "The Times” on February 11, 2009.

Why we are on the subject of science and the church….

You know – on some levels, the Catholics are correct – science and the church need not be at odds. They can – and do – work together.

In some ways, evolution is correct (was that your coffee you dropped?)

Evolution is correct in that animals adapt and evolve according to their habitat. It is incorrect in saying that different species of animals evolve from single cell bacterial.   

Shoot – the second law of thermodynamics states that things will move from an organized state to chaos. If that’s true, how can an “organized” animal come out of chaos?

Doesn’t fly with me.