Just goes to show...

... if you hang around long enough you find yourself agreeing with all manner of people.

I count myself as a member of the non-aligned movement when it comes to your various world religions, but having gone to a Catholic high school I'm sometimes interested about the latest Vatican hi-jinks.

Hence this quote on evolution:

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"

Fascinating. I remember a near punch-up in high school (20 years ago or thereabouts) between one of the priests and an evangelical Christian student along the same lines. Still, change moves slowly whether in evolution or in theology!