Source: The Telegraph
On January 20, 2006 The Telegraph reported, "The theory of 'intelligent design' is not science and teaching it in schools alongside Darwinian evolution only confuses pupils, the official Vatican newspaper has said.
Prof Fiorenzo Facchini, a specialist in evolutionary theory at the University of Bologna, argued in L'Osservatore Romano that 'intelligent design' belonged to the realms of philosophy and religion but not science.
The Vatican article dealt another blow to those Christians in the United States who want children to be taught the theory alongside Darwinism. 'God's project of creation can be carried out through secondary causes in the natural course of events, without having to think of miraculous interventions that point in this or that direction,' wrote Prof Facchini.
'If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should search for another,' he said in the paper. 'But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.'"