Sunday, February 22, 2009

Jesuit Says We Are Not Celebrating Darwin

The Pontifical Council for Culture, Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana are organizing the international conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Jesuit Father Marc Leclerc, a philosophy professor at the Gregorian, said the conference was in no way a "celebration in honor of the English scientist".
He said it would be an occasion to critically assess an event that permanently altered the history of science and changed the way people understood humanity.

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