Vatican sucker punches Creationists
May 23rd, 2006
BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth" had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.
He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a "kind of paganism" because it harked back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events.
Well said. Religion and science are not opposed to each other. Science helps us learn about the phenomenumenal world and religion talks about the noumenal world. To quote Sir William Bragg:
Religion and science are opposed … but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything.
P.S. This post was cross-posted at Hundie Jo dot com and the Unsound Argument.
