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I just learned that the Vatican has fired Father George Coyne, head of
the Vatican Observatory for more than 25 years, apparently because he
has declared that Intelligent Design is not science, contradicting the
current official position from Rome. I mention this because I remember
hearing Coyne give the keynote address at the 2001 ASTC Conference in
Phoneix.

 

For more - in the caustic tone of skeptic James Randi - see here:
http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-09/090106cruise.html

 

Here's a more straight news item on it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_ar
ticle_id=401950&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490

 

Jonah Cohen

Outreach & Public Programs Manager

The Children's Museum (formerly The Science Center of Connecticut)

 

"Connecticut is called The Nutmeg State, because much like the nutmeg in
any recipe it's ever been in, no one would miss it if it were gone."

         -Jon Stewart

 


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