beliefnet: Pope Replaces Intelligent Design Critic at Observatory
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a new director of the Vatican Observatory, replacing the Rev. George Coyne, a long-serving Jesuit astronomer and a vocal opponent of “intelligent design” theory.
It was unclear if the replacement of Coyne, the observatory’s director since 1978, reflected a sense of disapproval within the Vatican over his opposition to intelligent design — the idea that the world is too complex to have been created by natural events alone.
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