Intelligent Design

It would be refreshing to see a religious group say that "Intelligent Design" does not belong in the science room. It, therefore, is probably most refreshing to see a Roman Catholic Church official say that Intelligent Design is not science.

The rather sad thing is that the religious right (which, and I probably don't need to point this out, has way too much control over the Republican party) doesn't exactly respect the Catholic Church. (Which is understandable since these are the same Christian fundamentalists who feel the Catholic church has repressed them since forever.) But somehow I get the feeling these people (Pat Robertson, et al.) will dismiss this as the Vatican not being in touch with the "Lord's will."

The part they apparantly fail to remember (and or see) is that the Vatican has already gone through this. The Vatican has a history of fighting science and they realize there is no reason to. Science will never prove or disprove God. The only thing that will be disproved is your own integrity for claiming things of and about God that you have no business claiming.

I have an issue with the article though. It states that "Last week, Pope Benedict XVI waded indirectly into the evolution debate by saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order." In the context of this article, it makes it seem as if the Pontiff supports "Intelligent Design" as presented by its supporters. Personally I would like to ready his comments to make my own conclusion as to what he meant.

The religious right in this country will continue to try and place "Intelligent Design" in science class, and I truly respect Vatican officials for at least saying things against it. The Vatican has fought this war, so now it's time for another large religious group (which coincidentally has a good amount of control over government) to fight this war of explaining creation with a literal interpretation of the Bible. How about we start at Joshua 10:12, where it implies that the Sun moves around the Earth. "Intelligent Design" supporters could even ask the Vatican for its notes about this same subject back when it fought Galileo about this around 400 years ago.