This article is frustrating on two counts. First, we have the Vatican making an illegitimate distinction between the Bible and ‘science.’ Second, we have a headline that makes a claim that the Vatican never makes. The Vatican stated that the Genesis account does not speak to the mechanism of creation, which is a far cry from saying that “Evolution is in the Bible.”
The article says, “…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.”
It would seem the writer misinterpretes that God created and that science is a way we can invetigate that creation and not “the precise details of how creation and the development of the species came about.” It is a strong case for very poor logic followed by very poor writing.
What do expect when in the article headline the word “bible” is not capitilized?