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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:01:22
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/18/D8DV0FEO0.html
Hooray for the rational Christians!
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The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
"Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:08:12 [Permalink]
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Hooray on Mr. Coyne!
Glad to know someone still thinks in Vatican. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
1093 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:15:19 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf...
Hooray for the rational Christians!
Good deal. Now if they could just get over those silly ideas about miracles and gods and converting heathens and stuff. I'll have to admit my very first thought was that "rational Christians" should be found in a list of oxymorons with such phrases as "military intelligence" and "boneless ribs". 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:24:03 [Permalink]
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Yes, I know you have a distain for the spiritual even more than I do, but I figure they are not going to go away until the sun burns up the planet so we had better learn to live with them.
At least they're not lynching us anymore, right?
Its "Christian science" that goes on the list.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
| Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 11/18/2005 11:24:57 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:54:17 [Permalink]
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Let's not get too excited about this.
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(11-11) 12:48 PST VATICAN CITY, (AP) --
Pope Benedict XVI has waded into the evolution debate in the United States, saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order.
Benedict made the off-the-cuff comments during his general audience Wednesday. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, published the full text of his remarks in its Thursday editions.
Benedict focused his reflections for the audience on scriptural readings that said God's love was seen in the "marvels of creation."
He quoted St. Basil the Great, a fourth century saint, as saying some people, "fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance."
And so forth. It is said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
1093 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 12:03:16 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf...
At least they're not lynching us anymore, right?
Tell that to the Muslims.quote:
Its "Christian science" that goes on the list.
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