Rome, Italy, Nov 3, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Christians have the obligation to consider the insights of science, and science has the obligation to consider religion’s expert insight on human ethics, says Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
"We know where scientific reason can end up by itself: the atomic bomb and the possibility of cloning human beings are fruit of a reason that wants to free itself from every ethical or religious link," he said at a press conference yesterday, announcing an international conference on religion and science next week.
"But we also know the dangers of a religion that severs its links with reason and becomes prey to fundamentalism," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
"The faithful have the obligation to listen to that which secular modern science has to offer, just as we ask that knowledge of the faith be taken in consideration as an expert voice in humanity," he continued.