Controversial cardinal pays tribute to Darwin [View All]

Controversial cardinal pays tribute to Darwin
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He says flap over views on evolution arose from misunderstanding
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Reuters
Updated: 2:19 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2005
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PARIS - A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of intelligent design against Darwin’s explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as “one of the very great works of intellectual history.”

Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation and in evolution because one was a question of religion and the other of science, two realms that complemented rather than contradicted each other.

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A court in Pennsylvania is now hearing a suit brought by parents against a school district that teaches intelligent design — the view that life is so complex some higher being must have designed it — alongside evolution in biology class.

“Without a doubt, Darwin pulled off quite a feat with his main work and it remains one of the very great works of intellectual history,” Schoenborn declared in a lecture in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on Sunday. “I see no problem combining belief in the Creator with the theory of evolution, under one condition — that the limits of a scientific theory are respected.”

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