What do you think of the recent Vatican article on evolution?

[kathykon]

What do you think of the article that appeared last week in the Vatican newspaper that says we evolved from apes? Article excerpted below.

May 9, 2008
Vatican newspaper: Will of God made humans rise up from animal kingdom
by Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) —
“The formation of human beings necessitated a particular contribution by God, though it remains that their emergence was brought about by natural causes” of evolution, it said.

The article, published in the May 5-6 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, was written by Italian evolutionary biologist Fiorenzo Facchini.

This divine intervention “does not represent an unwarranted intrusion (of theology) in the field of science — as is the case with intelligent design — but is called for in order to explain the presence of man’s spirit” which cannot come from or evolve out of the material world, the article said.

 

[Reginald_Plum]

kathy,

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