Austrian Cardinal accuses America of censorship in evolution debate

Says, "A truly liberal society would at least allow students to hear of the debate"

Austrian Cardinal accuses America of censorship in evolution debate...

"Man cannot rationalize sin; man cannot rationalize his being which eliminates the Creator and His creation from history. My children, it is a delusion set upon the world by satan." - Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1977

LifeSiteNews.com reported on February 8, 2007:

Christoph Cardinal Schonborn of Vienna delivered a speech Wednesday evening in a continued effort to correct the frequent misconceptions regarding the Church’s teaching on creation and evolution. In his lecture, Schonborn took to task the US court that forbad the teaching of “intelligent design” in a Pennsylvania school and accused the court of mandating censorship in schools and the general public.

Schonborn’s lecture was sponsored by the New York based Homeland Foundation.

Schonborn was commenting on a 2005 US federal court ruling that forbad the Dover, Pennsylvania school district from teaching “intelligent design” creation theory in its biology classes. The cardinal condemned the ruling saying that it only allowed for children to be taught an atheistic view of creation without any mention of a Divine Creator. "A truly liberal society would at least allow students to hear of the debate," he said.

The judge in the Dover case ruled that “intelligent design” could not be taught in the school system because it was too closely related to creationism, a belief in the strict interpretation of the six days of creation as laid out in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.

In his lecture, Schonborn reinforced the Church’s position that science alone cannot explain creation but was careful to explain that “the Catholic faith can accept” the possibility that evolution does, in fact, occur but only under the direction of God, Himself.

Schonborn rejected the blanket acceptance of Darwinian evolution in today’s society and criticized the attempts to eliminate inquiry into Darwin’s findings. "Commonly in the scientific community every inquiry into the scientific weaknesses of the theory is blocked off at the very outset," Schonborn said of Darwinism. "To some extent there prevails a type of censoring here of the sort for which one eagerly reproached the church in former times."

Schonborn also cautioned against attributing the thoughts of others to the Church and told his audience to “listen to my arguments.” When asked if he would endorse the beliefs of the Discovery Institute, a think tank based in Seattle that promotes the belief of “intelligent design”, Schonborn reinforced that he adhered only to the teachings of the Church saying, “I do not belong to any kind of boxes.”

Schonborn’s lecture comes at a time of particular discord between the scientific camps of “intelligent design” creation and Darwinian evolution.

As reported by LifeSiteNews.com, the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II recently demanded that the communist government cease the exclusive teaching of Darwinian creation in Russian schools. He encouraged instead the teaching of biblical creation saying, “Teaching the biblical theory of the world's creation will not harm students.”

Just last year, the Discovery Institute gathered 500 signatures from doctoral scientists on a statement which read: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”

In a similar instance to the Dover ruling, the Ministry of Education in the Canadian province of Quebec issued an order last year mandating even private, Christian schools teach Darwinian evolution or face closure.

Read Previous LifeSiteNews.com Coverage:

Russian Orthodox Church Demands End to Communist Practice of Exclusive Darwinism in Schools
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07020606.html

Over 500 PhD Scientists Proclaim Their Doubts About Darwin's Theory
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022204.html

Quebec Government Forcing Evangelical Private Schools to Teach Sex Ed, Darwinism
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06102404.html

"Man shall not create a new world as he seeks. For there cannot be a lasting world without His God. And I speak not of the false idols and gods that man creates in his human nature! There is only one Creator....
"Little by little you go forward—I say, little by little, but I should stress that many is running fast and faster to the edge of the abyss. In his seeking for power and knowledge, man seeks to dethrone his God and create his own god. But who shall set himself above his Creator, even attempting to control birth and death? I say unto you, you shall never learn the secrets, the sacred secrets of death and life, for these are controlled by the Eternal Father." - Jesus, February 10, 1978

"A war far greater than any war fought in the history of creation shall come upon mankind soon. Flames shall engulf many nations, burning the skin from the bones, and the skin shall dry up and blow away as if it had never been! Eyes will see and still not believe that these are the fruits of their evil corruptive ways and loss of a belief in the Creator." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 28, 1978

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REJECTED
"Man of science has rejected the supernatural. Man of science has rejected the true Presence of My Son among you." - Our Lady, February 1, 1977

SICK SOULS
"Scientific man has found all means to alleviate suffering in the human race. But now the souls are sick, and what is science to do about that, My children? For all of their knowledge they have lost their beings." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

KILLER COMET
"Will your men of science find a way to stop the Ball of Redemption? I say unto you: No! For the Eternal Father shall guide that ball!" - Jesus, May 30, 1978

WARHEADS, MISSILES
"While the world cries peace, peace and salvation, they do not look in the right direction. They are depending on the scientists of the world, who are ever seeking but never coming to the truth. These scientists have created now arsenals of ammunition, and warheads and missiles, in which they seek to gain control of the world." - Our Lady, July 1, 1985

THE BEAR
"Satan has poisoned their minds, and your great scientists now seek only one thing--to please the Bear [communism]. For money." - Jesus, July 1, 1985

NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION
"I assure you, My children, that those minds that have reached beyond the clouds seeking the impossible have now grasped the atoms from the heavens.... And now they are using them to destroy the earth." - Jesus, June 18, 1992

UTOPIA
"In your errors and your darkness of spirit your scientists and your men of great knowledge are seeking to build a utopia upon earth for man. You are feeding his body and starving his soul." - Our Lady, May 27, 1978

DOCTORS
"Man of science must recognize the supernatural and the existence of a God, and as such, do honor to God the Father. He must, as a man of science. And doctors in the world, you must do good and cure honorably. You have become murderers! You have used your profession to destroy the unborn. Woe unto any man who has any measure of involvement in the murders of the unborn!" - Our Lady, May 27, 1978

FALSE FACES
"Your scientists are masked with false faces shouting love and brotherhood, while they compound all manner of evil devices to destroy the bodies and minds of men." - Jesus, March 18, 1977

IDOLS
"The intellectual scientists of your decadent age have chosen to set up idols of worship. How foolish to set man before his God, when man is but a temporary pilgrim upon earth.... No man shall place himself above his God!" - Our Lady, April 14, 1973

RESTORATION
"No man of science will ever have the secret for the restoration of the dead to the living. Life only goes over the veil; it begins a life anew. No dead body shall ever be restored to life until the final judgment at the end of all time. Unto that time, there is a Heaven; there is a purgatory, a place of purging--cleansing; and there is, sadly, a hell, the abode of the damned." - Our Lady, June 13, 1981

Directives from Heaven...

D56 - Science PDF
D161 - The Great Apostasy PDF
D164 - Heresy PDF

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http://www.tldm.org/News8/evolution.htm

Darwinian evolution: the modern anti-science
http://www.tldm.org/News8/evolutionAntiScience.htm

Teilhard de Chardin is in hell
http://www.tldm.org/news6/teilhard.htm

Adam and Eve: fact or fable?
http://www.tldm.org/News6/Adam&Eve.htm

"You shall be as gods": secular humanism and the kingdom of man (Part 1)
http://www.tldm.org/News6/SecularHumanism.htm

“You shall be as gods”: Secular humanism and self-idolatry (Part 2)
http://www.tldm.org/news7/SelfIdolatry.htm

Links...

Poor Darwin's false religion, WorldNetDaily, February 3, 2007
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54083
Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem of Control (#374), by Charles McCombs, Ph.D.
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=45

Don't the Fossils Prove Evolution? (#172), by John Morris, Ph.D.
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=525

Biology Confronts Evolution (#368), by Joseph Mastropaolo, Ph.D.
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=110

The Mathematical Impossibility Of Evolution (#179), by Henry Morris, Ph.D.
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=493

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