Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said today that the Catholic Church does not impede scientific realities like evolution. He further went on to say that even though evolution is a reality, it does not prove there is no God. Levada said atheists like evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins were “absurd” to think that evolution disproves the existence of God.

The good Cardinal obviously has it slightly wrong. Evolution disproves the “need” for a god. With the forces of evolution guiding our development, there would be nothing for a god to do. Besides you can not disprove something that does not exist in the first place. However, at least he made a very clear statement that the current Catholic Church supports the Theory of Evolution. Levada also said that intelligent design is “unscientific” and should not be taught along side of evolution in school classrooms (Fundamentalists take note). Of course we have heard this all before and then the Vatican reversed it’s position.