More on the Pope and Evolution

The topic of the Pope and evolution seems to have gotten a lot of people’s attention! There are ongoing discussions around the web in the press and on blogs. A few I’ve come across so far include the Ancient Hebrew Poetry blog, the Free Republic, and I’ve tried to get a discussion going on Topix. A comment on my last blog entry also raised the question of whether the Pope’s statement leaves room for or perhaps even mirrors Intelligent Design. Perhaps in my enthusiasm to get a clear statement supporting evolution and mainstream science I was uncritical of some weaknesses of the Pope’s position, at least as stated? Thus far I’ve only read sound bytes in translation, so perhaps I spoke too soon…