[extropy-chat] Prelate: Catholicism incompatible with neo-Darwinism

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:21 PM 7/7/2005 -0500, Rafal wrote:

>The [Cardinal] wrote:
>
>....the Catholic Church will again defend human reason....
>
>### Do you notice that he is trying to fit into an intellectual framework 
>defined in opposition to the Church a long time ago? He is bending over 
>backwards to accomodate the rhetoric of science

I don't think so. His language is pure Thomist Aristoteleanism (final 
causes, etc). Science of a 2350-year-old sort, but not as we know it, Jim.

Damien Broderick