Cardinal Schoenborn Clarifies (Backtracks From?) ...

... his July Times op-ed about evolution and design.  From Reuters via Amy Welborn:

A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of "intelligent design" against Darwin's explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as "one of the very great works of intellectual history".

Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation and in evolution because one was a question of religion and the other of science, two realms that complimented rather than contradicted each other.

Schoenborn's view, presented in a lecture published by his office on Tuesday, tempered earlier statements that seemed to ally the Church with United States conservatives campaigning against the teaching of evolution in public schools. . . .

In his lecture, Schoenborn said his [earlier] article had led to misunderstandings and sometimes polemics. "Maybe one did not express oneself clearly enough or thoughts were not clear enough," he said. "Such misunderstandings can be cleared up."

Looks like Rick was right that Cardinal Schoenborn wasn't challenging evolution as a mechanism -- even on the point of current controversy, evolution across species -- but the op-ed piece was unclear, as the Cardinal admits.

Tom