According to an article in The Australian a Vatican spokesman has declared that "Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible" if the Bible were read correctly".
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html
Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
By Martin Penner
7 November 2005THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.
Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible" if the Bible were read correctly.
His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see evolution and the Genesis account as mutually exclusive."The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator".
This idea was part of theology, Cardinal Poupard emphasised, while the precise details of how creation and the development of the species came about belonged to a different realm - science. Cardinal Poupard said that it was important for Catholic believers to know how science saw things so as to "understand things better".
His statements were interpreted in Italy as a rejection of the "intelligent design" view, which says the universe is so complex that some higher being must have designed every detail.
Comment from Creation Research
The above only shows that Darwin (the theological graduate), knew more about the Bible than a Catholic cardinal.
Darwin wrote "But I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the
Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower
of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc., and from its attributing to God
the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred
books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian."
(Extract from Nora Barlow, The autobiography of Charles Darwin,
1809-1882: with original omissions restored. New York, W.W. Norton, 1969.
pp. 85-96.)
When will Theistic evolutionist theologians admit that the foundational belief of evolution is that the universe did make itself, and is therefore incompatible even with Cardinal Poupard's view of Genesis?
The idea that God created the universe and all living creatures through a process of struggle, disease and death is totally incompatible with Genesis 1, which says many times that God created the world to be good.
It was only after man sinned and God cursed the ground, life became a struggle, "survival of the fittest" at the expense of the unfit commenced, and death prevailed.