Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Astronomy: New Vatican astronomer to stay out of Darwinian Theory debate

The newly appointed head of the Vatican Observatory, Argentine Fr. Jose Funes, has said he would be restricting his own work to his field of expertise, which is disk galaxies and had no plans to make any statements on biology or Darwinian theory.

He denied that his predecessor Fr. Coyne, had been removed by the Vatican for his opposition to Catholic teaching and his opposition to the Catholic Church's stand on materialist Darwinism.