Published: 13 April 2007
Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Charles Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation - but stopped short of endorsing intelligent design.
InCreation and Evolution, published on Wednesday in German, the Pope praised progress gained by science, but cautioned that evolution raises philosophical questions science alone cannot answer.
"The question is not to either make a decision for a creationism that fundamentally excludes science, or for an evolutionary theory that covers over its own gaps and does not want to see the questions that reach beyond the methodological possibilities of natural science," the Pope said. Rather, scientific and philosophical reason must work together, he said, in a way that does not exclude faith.
His predecessor, John Paul II, said in 1996 that Darwin's theories on evolution were sound, as long as they took into account that creation was the work of God. continue...
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