and speaking of intelligent designs...

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Aug 21, 2006

... by the time Pope Benedict holds his September seminar on Creation and evolution, we're no longer likely to be reading press accounts about how the directory of the Vatican Observatory questions the wisdom of the Pope's most prominent former theology student, and ridicules the theory of intelligent design.

This development should be ascribed to:

• natural selection: the survival of the fittest
• pure random chance
• events organized by some guiding intelligence