Vatican newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano) condemns “intelligent design” considering it only confuses children if corroborated with evolutionary theory

The author of the article in the Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano”, Fiorenzo Facchini, is teaching evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna:

“This isn’t how science is done. If the model proposed by Darwin is deemed insufficient, one should look for another, but it’s not correct from a methodological point of view to take oneself away from the scientific field pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.”

Intelligent design “doesn’t belong to science and the pretext that it be taught as a scientific theory alongside Darwin’s explanation is unjustified.”

“In a vision that goes beyond the empirical horizon, we can say that we aren’t men by chance or by necessity, and that the human experience has a sense and a direction signaled by a superior design.”

“God’s project of creation can be carried out through secondary causes in the natural course of events, without having to think of miraculous interventions that point in this or that direction.”

The Vatican article comes after a judge in Pennsylvania decided that it is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution, as it advances “a particular version of Christianity.”

Rev. George Coyne, chief astronomer in Vatican, also backed Fiorenzo Facchini’s opinion on the “intelligent design’s” deviation from science:

“Intelligent design isn’t science, even though it pretends to be. Intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”