Science Friday: Evolution and the Catholic Church

I'm a radio addict, as you may have already guessed from earlier posts. I'll probably recommend things I've listened to from time to time. If you don't already listen to NPR's Science Friday, I do recommend it. They often have good interviews. I just listened to a podcast of Friday's show and the main thing was an interview with Edward J. Larson about the ongoing discussion of the letters written by the previous Pope -essentially embracing evolution-, and the NYT op-ed piece from last month by Cardinal Schonborn, the archbishop of Vienna, in which he was considerably frosty to the whole thing. You may well have read lots of chatter about this already, but the Science Friday piece is worth a listen. Then you can get all lathered up all over again about the intelligent design issue. Actually, it is worth looking through their database of podcasts of earlier shows. There are some good interviews and discussions there to take with you on your journey, or just listen to them on your computer. Cheers, -cvj