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Scotsman.com News - Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer
by Decius at 1:22 pm EDT, May 9, 2006 |
Brother Consolmagno, who was due to give a speech at the Glasgow Science Centre last night, entitled "Why the Pope has an Astronomer", said the idea of papal infallibility had been a "PR disaster". What it actually meant was that, on matters of faith, followers should accept "somebody has got to be the boss, the final authority". "It's not like he has a magic power..."
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Scotsman.com News - International - Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer
by k at 8:04 pm EDT, May 9, 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.
[ Emphasis mine. Thank you Brother... nice to get support from the clergy on this one. -k] |
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