Inilah beda antara sikap penganut agama Nasrani umumnya: mereka bersedia
mendengarkan pendapat orang lain yang bertentangan dengan pendapat mereka.
Kita lihata juga disini Richan yanag tidak setuju dengan teori evolusi tapi dia
baca buku Dawkins..
Orang Islam mah biasanya main bunuh danmain libas aja..
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October 31, 2008
Stephen Hawking to address Vatican conference on evolution
There is no contradiction between creation and science, says Benedict XVI
Richard Owen in Rome
Stephen Hawking, the cosmologist and author of the bestselling A Brief History
of Time, is to take part today in a conference at the Vatican on Darwin,
evolution and intelligent design.
Pope Benedict XVI this morning opened the conference, organised by the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which will last until next Tuesday. He said
that like modern Popes before him, he saw no contradiction between the
Christian concept of Creation and science. He cited Galileo, whom, he said "saw
nature as a book whose author is God in the same way that Scripture has God as
its author." He added: "To "evolve" literally means "to unroll a scroll", that
is, to read a book. The imagery of nature as a book has its roots in
Christianity, and has been held dear by many scientists."
Professor Hawking, 66, recalled that he had taken part in a Vatican scientific
conference 30 years ago, when he had observed that since the universe had no
identifiable beginning, there had been no creation. He joked that he hoped the
Pope was unaware of this, "otherwise I might share the fate of Galileo".
Last month, the Vatican said the theory of evolution was compatible with the
Bible but there was no need for a posthumous apology to Charles Darwin, who, in
the 19th century, was attacked by the Church of England for theories which
contradicted the Biblical account of the Creation.
The Catholic Church accepts evolution, but sees it as part of the divine plan.
Pope Benedict has been described as a "theistic evolutionist" who believes that
God created life through evolution, and thus that there is no inherent clash
between religion and science.
The Catholic Church does not take the Genesis story that God created the world
in six days literally, regarding it instead as an allegory. However some
Christians - not least in the United States - do take the Genesis account
literally and object to evolution being taught in school.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican Council for Culture, said
scientists, theologians and philosophers would gather next March at a
conference organised by the University of Notre Dame and six pontifical
universities to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "Upon
the Origin of the Species".
Cardinal Paul Poupard, Monsignor Ravasi's predecessor as head of the Pontifical
Council for Culture, said that Genesis and Darwin's theory of evolution were
"perfectly compatible" if the Bible was read "correctly". The real message of
Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator" he said.
He said: "Maybe we should abandon the idea of issuing apologies as if history
was a court eternally in session" . He noted that unlike Galileo, Darwin had
never been formally condemned by the Catholic Church, "nor was his book ever
banned".
In additional remarks to the conference, the Pope told the scientists that "in
choosing the topic 'scientific Insight into the evolution of the universe and
of life', you seek to focus on an area of enquiry which elicits much interest.
In fact, many of our contemporaries today wish to reflect upon the ultimate
origin of beings, their cause and their end, and the meaning of human history
and the universe."
He added that his predecessors Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II had noted
"that there is no opposition between faith's understanding of creation and the
evidence of the empirical sciences......In order to develop and evolve, the
world must first be, and thus have come from nothing into being. It must be
created, in other words, by the first Being who is such by essence."
Quoting from St Thomas Aquinas, the Pope said that "to state that the
foundation of the cosmos and its developments is the provident wisdom of the
Creator is not to say that creation has only to do with the beginning of the
history of the world and of life. It implies, rather, that the Creator founds
these developments and supports them, underpins them and sustains them
continuously."
The world, far from originating out of chaos, "resembles an ordered book" the
Pope said. "Notwithstanding elements of the irrational, chaotic and the
destructive in the long processes of change in the cosmos, matter as such is
"legible". It has an inbuilt "mathematics"...... We may not at first be able to
see the harmony both of the whole and of the relations of the individual parts,
or their relationship to the whole. Yet, there always remains a broad range of
intelligible events, and the process is rational in that it reveals an order of
evident correspondences and undeniable finalities".
He said: "thanks to the natural sciences, we have greatly increased our
understanding of the uniqueness of humanity's place in the cosmos." He quoted
John Paul II as observing that "scientific truth, which is itself a
participation in divine Truth, can help philosophy and theology to understand
ever more fully the human person and God's Revelation about man, a Revelation
that is completed and perfected in Jesus Christ. "
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