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==2009 Conference==

==2009 Conference==

Several Catholic universities announced in early 2009 that they would co-sponsor  an international conference in Rome in March of 2009 titled "Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories." The symposium will bring together scholars from a number of diverse fields, including not only molecular biology, paleontology, and anthropology, but natural philosophy and theology as well. At a press conference introducing the event, Fr. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, professor of fundamental theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, which was founded in 1984 by [[Opus Dei]],<ref>http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Pontifical-University-of-the-Holy-Cross</ref> expressed his personal opinion that "from the perspective of Christian theology, biological evolution and creation are by no means mutually exclusive ... [but] I do not believe biological evolution is possible in a materialist world, without information, without direction, without a plan."<ref>http://www.dfwcatholic.org/international-conference-biological-evolution-facts-and-theories2450/.html</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 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>

== Bibliography ==

== Bibliography ==