Baby's First Fabulous

I am certainly out of the loop when it comes to official policy regarding homosexuality in the priesthood. I learned a bit from this article ("Vatican Speaks Against Gay Seminarians"), but I laughed out loud when I read this:

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Thomas Plante, a psychologist who for more than 15 years has conducted evaluations of prospective seminarians for U.S. dioceses and religious orders, said the document would have an "enormous" ripple effect on the future U.S. priesthood if it is followed.

"Sexual orientation in almost all the evaluations I've done over 15 years hasn't really mattered," he said. "Now what's coming out of the Vatican is that it matters in a big way. That's a real challenge because we think that there are many, many, many gay men who are fabulous priests."
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Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.

A Newtonian God

I wouldn't mind being the Vatican's Chief Astronomer... it makes you wonder what he actually does, though.

Vatican Official Refutes Intelligent Design

I agree with a lot of what the Reverend George Coyne has to say, especially that Intelligent Design is not science and has no place being taught along side evolution or in any science class. If it is to be taught, it should be taught in religion classes; even then I don't think it should be "taught" so much as suggested since it is, after all, a matter of faith.

It can be hard to resolve scientific evidence with matters of faith, but it can be done. Having faith in "intelligent design" or a "Newtonian God" does not mean that you don't believe in science; faith is inherently unscientific (or better anti-scientific) in that you believe things without evidence. It's kind of like being a skeptic; saying "Yeah, I see your evidence and I don't dispute it. However, I can draw other conclusions."

In some sense, I distrust the rapid "pushers" of Evolution because I feel a sort of anti faith, wherein they intend to "disprove God" rather than to prove some science.

Tell me, reader: do you understand what I'm saying, or am I rambling? Or both? Do you agree, or have another viewpoint? I'm sure you do.

Amazing Facts in this story

Browsing Yahoo!News, stumbled on this:
Archaeologists Unveil Ancient Church Site

Apparently a prisoner in Israel was doing some of his hard-labor-debt-repayment clearing rubble when he stumbled on a 3rd century mosaic indicative of a pre-Byzantine Christian church.

But you know what really caught my attention? The prisoner was serving a 2 year prison sentence for (wait for it) traffic violations. That would make you think twice about speeding or stretching that yellow light, now wouldn't it?