Intelligent Design Gains Support of Austrian Cardinal

The controversy over teaching Intelligent Design in the schools is likely to heat up as a leading Catholic Cardinal, Christoph Schonborn, seemingly endorsed the theory today in a New York Times op-ed titled Finding Design in Nature. Schonborn, the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, was the lead editor of the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church. Minimizing the importance of a 1996 letter by Pope John Paul II that seemed to endorse evolutionary theory, Schonborn said: "Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science."