On Evolution, Vatican Newspaper Gets It Mostly Right

Jerry Coyne has taken to task a Catholic priest namedCarlo Maria Polvani for writing to criticize the theory of evolution in the Vatican newspaper, L' Osservatore Romano. Coyne is doubly annoyed, first that a religious person would dare to criticize evolution, and second that he would get it wrong ("Vatican newspaper screws up the theory of evolution before criticizing it"). I believe Father Polvani got it mostly right.

The good father (who also happens to be a PhD biochemist) is clearly not...