{"id":292,"date":"2006-09-01T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T23:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:39:42","slug":"vatican-fires-observatory-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/vatican-fires-observatory-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Fires Observatory Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"george-coyne.jpg\"Since 2005, the head of the Vatican Observatory has been very vocal against intelligent design, saying it belittles God. He has been fired. Only recently \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 1992 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c did the Church officially announce acceptance of the findings of Galileo. Those are the facts, I’ll keep my opinions to myself. Below are links to various viewpoints on the issue, including input from James Randi and also Catholic.org
\nWikipedia info on George Coyne<\/a><\/p>\n

Intelligent Design belittles God – from Catholic.org
\n<\/a> Excerpt:<\/strong>
\nScience is and should be seen as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153completely neutral\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, says Father George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153science and religion are totally separate pursuits.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Christianity is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153radically creationist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Father George V. Coyne said, but it is not best described by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crude creationism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the fundamental, literal, scientific interpretation of Genesis or by the Newtonian dictatorial God who makes the universe tick along like a watch. Rather, he stresses, God acts as a parent toward the universe, nurturing, encouraging and working with it.<\/em>
\nSkeptic article by James Randi
\nExcerpt:<\/strong>
\nThe Vatican Observatory, now under new, safer, and much more reliable direction, has an interesting history. It began as a simple observational tower erected by Pope Gregory XIII in 1578. This was the Gregory who brought about the drastic changes in the Western calendar, appropriately now named, the Gregorian Calendar. By 1800, the tower was being used for real astronomy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rather than simple positional work, and a century later it was formally established as the Vatican Observatory. The Jesuits now operate it, working both from facilities south of Rome and from the University of Arizona in Tucson.<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to talk about it more? Join the discussion on this topic at:
\nCreation Talk Forum – Vatican Fires Observatory Director<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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