It's really sad, but the mainstream public has so much misinformation regarding the topic, yet they think they're following the church's teachings, when in some cases (as starherd tells me sometimes), the heads of the churches have come out with much more sensible viewpoints (and in some cases I get the idea that they may be specifically avoiding arguments with science).

I was going to say that the Catholic Church has been publicly agreeable to evolutionary theory, but I think there's an American Bishop who has also been publicly hostile to it...

Still, for the most part, has supported evolution for a while now.

it'd already been dismissed by them, someone closer to the pope, even, but this is more explicit in terms anyway

Yup. Intelligent Design isn't a Christian thing - it's a weird American churches thing.

*laughs hysterically and spells hysteriklly wrong as a result*

As I recall, this is the same guy who came out with the Vatican statement on the status of non-human sentients having souls.


Here, World, have a Counter-Reformation.