6000 Years Ago

And you thought they were kidding.... Whilest on the subject - they just showed Jesus Camp on Austrian TV. Sure it's easy to get creeped out by those little American Christanoids. But things ain't all secular over either. Recently I found thes quote from our dear Bavarian Father. Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI stated clearly, at a conference at the Castel Gandolfo addressing the nature of evolution, "It is not yet the time to reconcile the two domains." And: "This is in the interest of regaining a dimension of reason, which we have lost." Now it turns out the backlash's been going a bit longer. Ralph Boent, novelist and former physicist with a license to run particle accelerators, told me that the last pope told a scientist colleague of his that all those great discoveries of physcis are just great, if they would just please let that big bang stuff alone.