Cardinal Schonborn on Evolution

Christoph Cardinal Schonborn published an op-ed in today's New York Times, "Finding Design in Nature," about the teaching of the Catholic Church and "neo-Darwinism."  Here is a bit:

The Catholic Church, while leaving to science many details about the history of life on earth, proclaims that by the light of reason the human intellect can readily and clearly discern purpose and design in the natural world, including the world of living things.

Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.

Rick