Pittsburgh, Pa., Sep 19, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Adding his voice to the still sticky evolution / intelligent design conversation, Pittsburgh Bishop Donald Wuerl, argued in a recent column in the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper for the reasonableness of intelligent design, and the need for its rightful place in accepted theories for the origin of man.
For Bishop Wuerl, the crux of the problem is the either/or mentality which says that, “either everything as we know it was created as it is now by God in the beginning, or there was no creation or God of creation at all.”
Intelligent design, he says, is an appropriate middle ground. In this, he says, “we recognize both God’s free creation of all that is and the possibility, or even probability, that creation carried within it the plan of development which we can call evolution.”
Bishop Wuerl cites the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, and his work, Physics, where in “his study as a natural philosopher and scientist, not unlike Darwin’s Origins of the Species except in its conclusion, Aristotle develops at length a reasoned explanation for what we find in the universe.”