A couple of good ZENIT articles this week to post.
The first pertains to comments the Pope made on the synthesis of science and religion. He says that Catholic universities must recover the harmonious synthesis between science and religion that Aquinas and others reached, but this "is unfortunately contested by important currents of modern philosophy." He opines that fundamental philosophical questions are "confined to the sphere of subjectivity". On the contrary he urges their research to be open to God.
I can't recall if I've commented on this before — I suppose it's likely that I have but I'll comment again anyway — I think the issue with Intelligent Design vs. Evolution is that scientists have brought in their own atheistic philosophy and are teaching it in schools. The complaint is that ID teaches theistic philosophy in science classes where it doesn't belong, and perhaps that is true, but atheistic philosophy has made its way into science classes, and that's just as unacceptable. Any time you categorically assign responsibility for the origins of the universe to random chance, you are engaging in atheistic philosophy. And that is what the ID people are trying to oppose.
