Harry's Blog

The Pope is clearly a smart cookie and its ironic that some of the more progressive thought in Christianity is coming from the Catholic Church these days rather than the upstart post-Luther groups who tend to feel they are the gazillion one true churches.

A new book set to be published in Germany features Pope Benedict's on the subject of evolution, and his views are much more sensible than the shrill nonsense you hear from the Young Earth Creationists and the Creation Science nutters.

"I would not depend on faith alone to explain the whole picture," the Pope writes. And that it was pointless to side either with "creationism that fundamentally excludes science" or with a theory of evolution that rules out all questions "that reach beyond the possibilities of science".

I continue to be amazed why so many Christians have a problem with evolution. There's nothing really in Genesis that excludes it and the shrill hatred of science seems a very modern thing, like the faith wants to take a step backwards to darker times. A lot of fight-wing Christianity seems more like the Taleban.