{"id":1543,"date":"2005-10-06T00:18:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T00:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/schoenborn-clarifies.html"},"modified":"2005-10-06T00:18:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T00:18:51","slug":"schoenborn-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/schoenborn-clarifies.html","title":{"rendered":"Schoenborn clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Says evolution’s okay, tells bloggers to stop arguing about him<\/a><\/p>\n

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A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of "intelligent design" against Darwin’s explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as "one of the very great works of intellectual history".<\/p>\n

Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation and in evolution because one was a question of religion and the other of science, two realms that complimented rather than contradicted each other.<\/p>\n

Schoenborn’s view, presented in a lecture published by his office on Tuesday, tempered earlier statements that seemed to ally the Church with United States conservatives campaigning against the teaching of evolution in public schools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, that’s exactly <\/em>what I thought when I read that NYTimes <\/em>piece he wrote. He wants them to stop teaching evolution in American public schools.<\/p>\n

A bit more here:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Vienna Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn made new comments on the on-going debate on evolution vs. intelligent design, saying both were complementary: <\/span><\/p>\n

He presented his views on Sunday, in the first conference of what is to become a nine-month cycle of lectures, with the title \u201cCreation and Evolution.\u201d  Each lecture will take place at the Vienna Cathedral. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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