{"id":9378,"date":"2008-11-03T04:57:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stephen_hawking_to_address_vatican_conference_on_evolution\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T04:57:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:57:10","slug":"stephen_hawking_to_address_vatican_conference_on_evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9378","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking to address Vatican conference on evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking, the cosmologist and author of the bestselling A Brief History of Time, is to take part today in a conference at the Vatican on Darwin, evolution and intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI this morning opened the conference, organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which will last until next Tuesday. He said that like modern Popes before him, he saw no contradiction between the Christian concept of Creation and science. He cited Galileo, whom, he said &#8220;saw nature as a book whose author is God in the same way that Scripture has God as its author.&#8221; He added: &#8220;To &#8220;evolve&#8221; literally means &#8220;to unroll a scroll&#8221;, that is, to read a book. The imagery of nature as a book has its roots in Christianity, and has been held dear by many scientists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article5054745.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking, the cosmologist and author of the bestselling A Brief History of Time, is to take part today in a conference at the Vatican on Darwin, evolution and intelligent design. Pope Benedict XVI this morning opened the conference, organised<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9378\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,154,636,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}