More Muddle From "Catholic" Scientists

When Pope Benedict denied in his Easter homily that we are an insignificant product of a random evolutionary process, we were bound to get some confused news stories on Catholicism and evolution. Faye Flam of the Philadelphia Inquirer has delivered with a piece titled: "Catholicism and evolution: Are they contradictory?"

The article is chock full of unexamined assumptions and the sloppy use of ambiguous words like "science" and "evolution." For instance, she quotes Pope Benedict as...