Senior Vatican astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, disclosed in an address before the British Science Festival the ongoing revival of the controversial theory of Intelligent Design among a narrow group of Creationist fundamentalist Christians in America. Intelligent Design theorizes that only God can explain gaps in the theory of evolution, making erroneous assumption that the theory of evolution validly explains the creation of mankind. Centuries old, it described the idea that God could be discovered in the laws of space and time and the existence of human reason. Consolmagno said that the theory had been "hijacked" by religious fundamentalists. "The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of Creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it did not originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning. Consolmagno (57) is a trained astronom...
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