Thursday, January 19, 2006

Intelligent design is pretend science: Vatican paper

Intelligent design was rubbished this week. Not by a 'liberal' outfit like Newsweek or a real one like The New York Times. It was criticized in the pages of the official newspaper of the Vatican.

L'Osservatore Romano published a column in which a University of Bologna professor noted: "If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should search for another,"

He added that: "But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science."

The New York Times article added: L'Osservatore is the official newspaper of the Vatican and basically represents the Vatican's views. Not all its articles represent official church policy. At the same time, it would not be expected to present an article that dissented deeply from that policy.

1 comment:

Frank Partisan said...

Maybe ID is too Protestant.