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==2009 Conference==

==2009 Conference==

In early March of 2009, the Vatican marked the 150'th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' with a five-day conference titled "Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories," which was held at the Pontifical Gregorian University. The symposium brought together scholars from a number of diverse fields, including not only molecular biology, paleontology, and anthropology, but natural philosophy and theology as well. Cardinal William Levada, who heads the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, remarked that while assertions that claim that evolution eliminates the possibility of God's existence are "absurd," he criticized those who "have a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible which they want to see taught to their children in the schools alongside evolution or instead of it." Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is noted as having explained that there is "no ''a priori'' incompatibility between evolution and the message of the Bible". <ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5859797.ece</ref>

In early March of 2009, the Vatican marked the 150'th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' with a five-day conference titled "Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories," which was held at the Pontifical Gregorian University. The symposium brought together scholars from a number of diverse fields, including not only molecular biology, paleontology, and anthropology, but natural philosophy and theology as well. Cardinal William Levada, who heads the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, remarked that assertions that claim that evolution eliminates the possibility of God's existence are "absurd," though he criticized those who "have a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible which they want to see taught to their children in the schools alongside evolution or instead of it." Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is noted as having explained that there is "no ''a priori'' incompatibility between evolution and the message of the Bible". <ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5859797.ece</ref>

== Bibliography ==

== Bibliography ==