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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/vatican-ponders-design-theory/2006/08/28/1156617274850.html


Vatican ponders 'design' theory
John Hooper, Rome
August 29, 2006


PHILOSOPHERS, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will 
gather at his summer palace outside Rome this week, possibly signalling a 
fundamental shift in the Vatican's view of evolution.

There have been growing signs that the Pope is considering aligning his church 
more closely with the theory of "intelligent design".

Advocates of the theory argue that some features of the universe and nature are 
so complex that they must have been designed by a higher intelligence. Critics 
say it is merely a disguise for "creationism", the literal belief in the word 
of the Bible.

A prominent anti-evolutionist and Roman Catholic scientist, Dominique Tassot, 
told the American National Catholic Reporter that this week's meeting was "to 
give a broader extension" to the debate.

Even if the Pope knew where he wanted to go -"and I believe he does" - it would 
take time.

"Most Catholic intellectuals today are convinced that evolution is obviously 
true because most scientists say so," he said.

In 1996, in what was seen as an unconditional capitulation to scientific 
orthodoxy, John Paul II declared that Darwin's theories were "more than a 
hypothesis".

Last week, at a conference in Rimini, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, of Austria, 
revealed that evolution and creation had been chosen as the subjects 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.

Last December a US court sparked controversy when it ruled that intelligent 
design should not be taught alongside evolution theory.

Cardinal Schonborn said the recent debate had "undoubtedly motivated" the 
Pope's choice.

But he added that, in the 1960s, the then Joseph Ratzinger had "underlined 
emphatically" the need to return to the topic of creation.

The Pope also raised the issue in the inaugural sermon of his pontificate, 
saying: "We are not the accidental product, without meaning, of evolution."

A few months later Cardinal Schonborn, who is regarded as being particularly 
close to Benedict, wrote an article for The New York Times that was seen as 
backing moves to teach intelligent design.

He was attacked by Father George Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory. On 
August 19, Father Coyne was replaced without explanation.

GUARDIAN


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