Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design?

typobox43 writes "A Vatican representative has expressed a defense of the theory of evolution, stating that it is "perfectly compatible" with the Genesis story of creation. "The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator"." Of course, it'd probably be best if fundmentalists actually talked to, say, the rabbis who wrote the whole thing down. The Orthodox rabbis I've spoken find it amazingly amusing that people take the creation story as literal truth, rather then a story about YHWH's power.

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[The NPS]

Hooray!

Fascinating subject

[kjdames]

It amazes me that people get so passionate about this subject, but what justification is there in belittling other's beliefs? I believe there is a God. You may believe there is not. Neither of us can prove ourselves correct or each other wrong, so why get worked up about it? I do not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, but obviously I can not prove it is incorrect. Even if I could, should I think less of someone that believed it? It is the differing of opinions that eventually brings enlightenment to all (you can quote me on that). I haven't made up my own mind on the origin of the species, but I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that what I call God directly had a hand in it. I just can not comprehend how life could be created from non-life without the intervention of an "intelligent designer".