“Creation and evolution: an integration, not an exclusion”

“Creation and evolution: an integration, not an exclusion”, says F. Rafael Pascual LC, Dean of Philosophy Faculty and Academic Director and Scientific Coordinator of Science and Faith Diploma Program, at Pontifical Atenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Roma.

Father Pascual, author of "L' evoluzione: Crocevia di Scienza, Filosofia e Teologia" (The Crossroads Evolution of Science, Philosophy and Theology), said that:

"the debate on evolution is open. A distinction must be made between the different levels: scientific-philosophical-theological, without confusing them or separating them completely."

In regard to the debate on intelligent design, Father Pascual pointed out that "it isn't a scientific question, but rather a philosophical one." "But neither is the negation of finality, or recourse to pure chance and to necessity, scientific," that is why "it seems to be a mistake to present intelligent design as an alternative scientific theory to the theory of evolution," he said.

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