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Darwin & the Cardinal.(The Last Word)(Charles Darwin)(Cardinal Christoph Schonborn)
From: Commonweal
Date: 20050812
Author:Haught, John F.
Many Catholics would be surprised to hear that the Darwinian theory of evolution is incompatible with Christian faith. Yet this was the central contention of a recent New York Times op-ed piece by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna ("Finding Design in Nature," July 7).
"Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true," the cardinal wrote, "but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense--an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection--is not." A front-page story in the July 9 Times ("Leading Cardinal Redefines Church's View on Evolution") ...
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