[Marxism] Catholic Church: "No, you had it right the first time...

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... we HATE evolution!"

full at:
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07schonborn.html?pagewanted=print

You gotta hand it to 'em; they're slick. Notice how they defend their
antievolution stance by claiming to be the ones standing up for reason
and intelligence; scientists are the dogmatic ones!

After this swill you'll need a good chuckle, so here's a humorous but
effective attack on [un]intelligent design:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-
barash27jun27,0,5530701.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

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July 7, 2005
Finding Design in Nature
By CHRISTOPH SCHÖNBORN
Vienna

EVER since 1996, when Pope John Paul II said that evolution (a term he
did not define) was "more than just a hypothesis," defenders of neo-
Darwinian dogma have often invoked the supposed acceptance - or at
least acquiescence - of the Roman Catholic Church when they defend
their theory as somehow compatible with Christian faith.

But this is not true. The Catholic Church, while leaving to science
many details about the history of life on earth, proclaims that by the
light of reason the human intellect can readily and clearly discern
purpose and design in the natural world, including the world of living
things.

Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution
in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random
variation and natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that
denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in
biology is ideology, not science........

Christoph Schönborn, the Roman Catholic cardinal archbishop of Vienna,
was the lead editor of the official 1992 Catechism of the Catholic
Church.


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