The Vatican is the same outfit which brought charges up against Copernicus and Galileo for the blasphemy of their radical scientific views and yet now the Vatican takes a relatively cosmopolitan view of climate change. (RT: Mass extinction: Vatican embraces science to fight biggest threats to humanity)
Picture of the Vatican and Saint Peter's Square on the annual Free T-Shirt Day.
- Stefano Rellandini / Reuters
Leading biologists, ecologists and economists from around the world have been invited to a conference in the Vatican this week, where the impending mass extinction event facing our planet will be addressed and possible solutions formulated.
“By the beginning of the next century we face the prospect of losing half our wildlife… The extinctions we face pose an even greater threat to civilisation than climate change – for the simple reason they are irreversible,” biology Professor Peter Raven, of the Missouri Botanical Garden told the Observer.
“That the symposia are being held at the Papal Academy is also symbolic. It shows that the ancient hostility between science and the church, at least on the issue of preserving Earth’s services, has been quelled,” said economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, of Cambridge University.
- RT
Contrasting the Vatican perspective with that of Donald Trump is pointless since you already know his intentions and he's obviously only in it for the money without regard for any consequences. He may well be the shallowest the GOP has ever rolled out. We'll leave the obvious to Alec Baldwin and keep on rolling.
Trump is only an obstructor and such forces never progress in anything. Conversely, it's remarkable to see such open-mindedness from the Vatican now when it has a centuries-old tradition of opposing just about everything.
Ed: the Vatican wants to ensure it's still there in a hundred years.
With progressive attitudes like they're showing lately, they will be.
Ed: plus if they keep giving away free t-shirts?
That too
Picture of the Vatican and Saint Peter's Square on the annual Free T-Shirt Day.
- Stefano Rellandini / Reuters
Leading biologists, ecologists and economists from around the world have been invited to a conference in the Vatican this week, where the impending mass extinction event facing our planet will be addressed and possible solutions formulated.
“By the beginning of the next century we face the prospect of losing half our wildlife… The extinctions we face pose an even greater threat to civilisation than climate change – for the simple reason they are irreversible,” biology Professor Peter Raven, of the Missouri Botanical Garden told the Observer.
“That the symposia are being held at the Papal Academy is also symbolic. It shows that the ancient hostility between science and the church, at least on the issue of preserving Earth’s services, has been quelled,” said economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, of Cambridge University.
- RT
Contrasting the Vatican perspective with that of Donald Trump is pointless since you already know his intentions and he's obviously only in it for the money without regard for any consequences. He may well be the shallowest the GOP has ever rolled out. We'll leave the obvious to Alec Baldwin and keep on rolling.
Trump is only an obstructor and such forces never progress in anything. Conversely, it's remarkable to see such open-mindedness from the Vatican now when it has a centuries-old tradition of opposing just about everything.
Ed: the Vatican wants to ensure it's still there in a hundred years.
With progressive attitudes like they're showing lately, they will be.
Ed: plus if they keep giving away free t-shirts?
That too
2 comments:
Catholic Church has been on the side of factual evidence since at least the 1950s.
Sad but true, these days there's plenty of US states where you can get a much better science education in a Catholic school than a public one.
No doubt but the system overall is a patchwork quilt of mixed ideas with some giving relatively good results and others clearly not. I know the Catholic Church hasn't been rejecting evolution and that position was taken while evangelicals, at least some percentage of them, went the other way and teach that instead. This bizness is a major mess.
My position on it is adamantly Fed since education is the same anywhere but there's evidence Tennessee may have an effective approach so my interest would be to use that across the board if it really does deliver the product in a better way.
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