BluffThis,

I'm interested in your position on a few things quoted in the article:

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"God in his infinite freedom continuously creates a world that reflects that freedom at all levels of the evolutionary process to greater and greater complexity," he wrote.

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So did we get from monkeys to humans entirely by natural processes, or has God interfered with physical processes to direct it? It's one or the other.

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"He is not continually intervening, but rather allows, participates, loves."

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Please decipher this statement for me. He <font color="green">allows</font> and <font color="blue">participates</font> but doesn't <font color="red">intervene</font>??

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Last week, Pope Benedict XVI waded indirectly into the evolution debate by saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order."

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Hmmm?

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Questions about the Vatican's position on evolution were raised in July by Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.

In a New York Times column, Schoenborn seemed to back intelligent design and dismissed a 1996 statement by Pope John Paul II that evolution was "more than just a hypothesis." Schoenborn said the late pope's statement was "rather vague and unimportant."

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Well, at least it's clear now. It's nice that one religion has got it right.