Intelligent Life

Never ceasing to amaze, the Catholic hierarchy actually has one member who exhibits rational thought. Now there are millions of Catholic parishioners capable of this – but who would have imagined it to be possible in the organization itself?

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

"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do."

Brother Consolmagno is wrong however thinking that “science needs religion in order to have a conscience.” The Inquisition, The Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, the Sex Abuse scandals.....all are examples of religious conscience?
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