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Originally Posted by alansmithee
And also, ID has nothing to do with religion, anyways. Many noted scientists agree with the principles of ID. But again, that gets in the way of the "OmG, tEh r31iGiOn iZ tEh SuXx0rZ!1!!!!111!!11!1" "arguement" that many people want to put out currently.
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I've never understood this statement. Can you provide an example of an intelligent designer that is not God?
Also, the Vatican has rejected ID and supports evolution:
Evolution in the bible, says Vatican - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au
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THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.
Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible" if the Bible were read correctly.
His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see evolution and the Genesis account as mutually exclusive.
"The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator".
This idea was part of theology, Cardinal Poupard emphasised, while the precise details of how creation and the development of the species came about belonged to a different realm - science. Cardinal Poupard said that it was important for Catholic believers to know how science saw things so as to "understand things better".
His statements were interpreted in Italy as a rejection of the "intelligent design" view, which says the universe is so complex that some higher being must have designed every detail.
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