[extropy-chat] More positive comments from the Vatican - This time it's the Pope

[kevinfreels.com]

"Pope sees no rivalry between faith and science " 

http://www.physorg.com/news10781.html

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday rejected the idea of competition between faith and science, but admitted that the fast pace of scientific progress had sometimes caused "confusion" for Roman Catholics. 


In the 20th century "the progress of science was often so fast that it was difficult to determine how it could be compatible with the truths revealed by God about man and the world," the pontiff said, adding that some scientific claims "went against these truths". 

This has at times created a certain confusion among the faithful," he said. 

But there existed "no competition between reason and faith", he said. 

Benedict made his comments during a meeting with members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the entity he headed for 24 years whose origins go back to 1542, during the Inquisition. 

For centuries the Roman Catholic Church rejected scientific theories which it felt threatened its view of the creation of the universe, and some defenders of science were branded as heretics during the Inquisition.

The Church has recently distanced itself from some Christian fundamentalist groups which want to ban the teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution. 
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