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An interview that Cardinal Schonborn granted to Tom Heneghan has been posted prominantly on the Beliefnet website.
If the Cardinal’s recent article in First Things was a response to the criticism his editorial for the New York Times received from scientific circles, this interview serves more as a popular response to the questions that have been raised by the Cardinal’s contributions to the evolution debate:
"What are your objections to the theory of evolution?
Evolution is a scientific theory. What I call evolutionism is an ideological view that says evolution can explain everything in the whole development of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I consider that an ideology. It’s not good for science if it becomes ideological, because it leaves it own field and enters the area of philosophy, of world views, maybe of religion.
This is not primarily a religious question, but one of reason. Can one reasonably say the origin of man and of life can be explained only by material causes? Can matter create intelligence? This question cannot be answered scientifically, because the scientific method cannot grasp it. Here we can only argue philosophically, metaphysically, or religiously.
Reason can recognize that matter cannot organize itself. That it at least needs information, and information is an expression of intelligence."
read more: cardinalschonborn.com/2006/01/beliefnet-interviews-cardinal.html
or read the article directly: beliefnet.com/story/182/story_18220_1.html
If the Cardinal’s recent article in First Things was a response to the criticism his editorial for the New York Times received from scientific circles, this interview serves more as a popular response to the questions that have been raised by the Cardinal’s contributions to the evolution debate:
"What are your objections to the theory of evolution?
Evolution is a scientific theory. What I call evolutionism is an ideological view that says evolution can explain everything in the whole development of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I consider that an ideology. It’s not good for science if it becomes ideological, because it leaves it own field and enters the area of philosophy, of world views, maybe of religion.
This is not primarily a religious question, but one of reason. Can one reasonably say the origin of man and of life can be explained only by material causes? Can matter create intelligence? This question cannot be answered scientifically, because the scientific method cannot grasp it. Here we can only argue philosophically, metaphysically, or religiously.
Reason can recognize that matter cannot organize itself. That it at least needs information, and information is an expression of intelligence."
read more: cardinalschonborn.com/2006/01/beliefnet-interviews-cardinal.html
or read the article directly: beliefnet.com/story/182/story_18220_1.html