Intelligent design not science, says Vatican paper

THE Vatican newspaper has published an article saying “intelligent design” is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.

The article in yesterday’s editions of L’Osservatore Romano was the latest in a series of interventions by Vatican officials - including the Pope - on the issue.

The author, Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, laid out the scientific rationale for Darwin’s theory of evolution, saying that in the scientific world, biological evolution “represents the interpretative key of the history of life on Earth”.