[extropy-chat] against ID

[gts]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:54:57 -0500, kevinfreels.com  
<kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:

> What is especially interesting is that the Catholic Church officially  
> agrees that ID does not belong in the classroom. :-)

According to this site the Catholic Church never formally condemned  
evolution, and then embraced it positively in 1996:

"On 1996-OCT-23, the Pope sent a formal statement to the Pontifical  
Academy of Science which stated that 'fresh knowledge leads to recognition  
of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis.' He did not  
identify this new knowledge. Italian newspapers reported this development  
as front-page news. Il Messaggero published the headline 'The Pope  
Rehabilitates Darwin'. Il Giornale printed 'The Pope Says We May Descend  
 from Monkeys.'"

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_hist.htm


-gts