alex chiang: web 6.0

In a perhaps not-unsurprising move, the Vatican has rejected intelligent design.

Why unsurprising? Consider that intelligent design is most heavily promoted by Protestant fundamentalists with whom the Vatican has long disagreed with. We see from the article, however, that the Vatican isn’t simply disagreeing just to be annoying. They are taking the view that I’ve argued all along:

[...] the real message in Genesis was that “the universe didn’t make itself and had a creator”. [...] the precise details of how creation and the development of the species came about belonged to a different realm - science.

Good job, Vatican.

(This post originally written 07-November-2005)