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

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> Amazing scenes: just when you think Christian dogmatists have realized 
> it's not safe to get in the ring with science, we learn that divinely 
> directed evolution is the truth, and Darwin plus genetics is just plain 
> wrong:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07schonborn.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print 
> 
> 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.

As indeed it is not.  The Judeo-Christian origin myth is no more compatible 
with Darwinism than it is with the Standard Model of the Big Bang.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence