Reply #16: Umm, excuse me... [View All]

[trotsky]

but exactly what words are being put in the pope's mouth?

He simply once again revealed the anti-science stance his church has historically taken. Oh sure, evolution is "more than a hypothesis" but it all supposedly happened according to "God's plan." Religionists like the pope can't stand the thought of something not happening for a reason, and so we see throughout history people like him, or Dick Cheney, or similar modern politicians, using science when it suits them and bashing it or its conclusions whenever it doesn't.

The pope's ideological cousins denounce the science of global warming, ozone depletion, homosexuality being genetic, and so on. They are all fruits of the same tree, hostile towards rational free inquiry.