TIME magazine still irked that Catholics aren't worshipping Darwin...

In a short July 24th piece titled "Doubting Darwin," Jeff Israely asks, "Why is an Austrian cardinal stirring up the evolution-vs.-creationism argument in the U.S.?":

In part, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn says, to spark debate in an increasingly secular Europe. Earlier this month, the influential Archbishop of Vienna — who is as close as any Cardinal to Pope Benedict XVI — wrote an editorial in the New York Times lambasting what he calls "Neo-Darwinian dogma," and suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church isn't necessarily convinced that evolution is true.

That's a sloppy way of putting it in light of Cardinal Schöborn's clear remarks in the July 7th op-ed, "Finding Design in Nature," in which he stated:

Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.

As Mark Brumley noted on this blog, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone in the MSM. But it does. Could it be that some journalists actually think Catholics might be atheists because they don't believe Darwin is God? I sometimes wonder...

Comments

[Mark]

And we're also not behaving in Canada:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071906.html
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071903.html

Lets hope the stories are not true.

[MenTaLguY]

Mark, the first is most certainly true. The transcript and RealAudio of the opinion piece are posted publically on the CBC's site.

Perhaps unsurprisingly Ferguson could not resist taking a shot at Judaism either; his proposal near the bottom would outlaw the bris.

[Gabriel]

I really pray for a good resolution to all this difficulty. How could anyone in a free, democratic society want to curtail religious freedom? I at first thought the commentary piece on the CBC to be a satire and that the report didn't quite get it, but it seems as if the commentator was completely serious. I wonder how many adherents of this philosophy reside in the U.S.? God help us who made heaven and earth.

[BillyHW]

Here's the recording of the radio piece:

http://cbc.ca/commentary/media/20050718JUL18.ram

[Plato's Stepchild]

Pray that University of Notre Dame Press (or someone else if the rights have lapsed -- hint, hint) will republish Etienne Gilson's monumental work - From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again.

[francis]

Notice the strange logic:
"I want to propose government regulation of religion ... because separation of church and state is under threat."

[Plato's Stepchild]

RE: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE AND CBC INTERVIEW

What is being proposed is Erastianism -- that the church is subject to the state, third door on the left. A Church that is beholden to the State is not only adulterous, but beholden to an abusive lech.