[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by saden1

It seems to me the Pope is fallible. Just because you put a theory after a claim doesn't mean it's a theory, certainly not the scientific kind.

Omigod! Religious leaders agree with saden1. Can Armaggedon be far away?

"Church teaching holds that Catholicism and evolutionary theory are not necessarily at odds. But the Vatican's position became somewhat confused in recent years, in part because of a 2005 New York Times op-ed piece written by a close Benedict collaborator, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.

In the piece, Schoenborn seemed to reject traditional church teaching and back intelligent design, the view that life is too complex to have developed through evolution alone, and that a higher power has had a hand in changes among species over time.

Vatican officials later made clear they did not believe intelligent design was science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only created confusion."

Vatican official: Atheist theories 'absurd' - The Vatican- msnbc.com