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The Pope has weighed into the age-old debate between religion and science over the universe's origins, telling worshipers gathered at St. Peter's Basilica that God was behind the Big Bang.
In a sermon marking the Epiphany, the day when Bible says three kings gathered at the site where Jesus was born by following a star, Pope Benedict XVI said "the universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe."
"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said.
-- LJ/News
I wouldn't have thought this news, as I supposed that only among American fundamentalist circles is one so bold as to pit science as a tool of Satan. The Church is smart enough to know when to co-opt long-established science, though sometimes, as in the case of Galileo, that can be a really long time, but if we cannot expect conservatism from the Church than from where? One just doesn't want them making our laws.
In a sermon marking the Epiphany, the day when Bible says three kings gathered at the site where Jesus was born by following a star, Pope Benedict XVI said "the universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe."
"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said.
-- LJ/News
I wouldn't have thought this news, as I supposed that only among American fundamentalist circles is one so bold as to pit science as a tool of Satan. The Church is smart enough to know when to co-opt long-established science, though sometimes, as in the case of Galileo, that can be a really long time, but if we cannot expect conservatism from the Church than from where? One just doesn't want them making our laws.
