"Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper

The Catholic Church issues an article reasserting its support for evolution and praising a U.S. court decision that "intelligent design" is not science.

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[beehof]

Everytime they find a new skull it bridges a 50 million year gap.

This has caused me to think though. Everytime they find a new skull it bridges a 50 million year gap...

Thats not science either...thats guessing.

what is the political agenda of CNet

I would greatly prefer that such political issues dealing with
science and religion of any sort were left off the pages of a
business that should be offering unbiased viewpoints of
hardware, software, and related news. This article - although
trying to appear neutral - does a poor job in representing it
factually in such a way that it would be neutral. It is obvious
from the very title that a certain joy and excitement exists in the
author to imply that a chism exists among religious leaders on a
subject of faith, science, and politics. I do not need to have my
political or religious veiwpoints spelled out for me by a company
that should be focusing on the real issues of technology. I am
quite capable of figuring out religion and politics all on my own.

[Mister C]

Science is not political

Unfortunately it has been made that way buy those with with other goals. Like imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else. Science tries to explain the world around us as clearly as possible in light of current knowledge.

C/net is about News of change not just news of IT.

And your pretense of neutrality is quite transparent. I would suggest that it is not c/net that has the political agenda.

[t8]

I totally agree

IT is one thing ID is another.

Evolution is proven beyod any doubt.

Evolution was under attack from the time Darwin & Wallace proposed it. The Pope or the Vatican is reviving Catholic spleen over science. Its job is deal with Chirtianity , let it do so. Leave Science to do it job. Science is not fighting religion? So why all this now. Its trying to revive feelings amoung normal people to start looking at thier life as reason of the ID and hence make people leave rational reasoning and quiry to solve problems and depend on ID to find a solution to thier lifes problems. Its nothing by modern day efforts to creat the dark ages all over again so the papacy can be geared up to fight a seeming illusionary Calipath.

[Mutex]

Evolution has not only been proved...

It's actually applied in some forms of engineering and computing. Genetic Programming for example. I've been many religious people here in the UK and very very few of them reject the "theory" of evolution, or misunderstand what constitutes a scientific "theory".