That seals it - I'm not Catholic

So, big news today is that the Vatican is holding a "Conference on Darwinism." This is sponsored by the head of the Church's Pontifical Council on Culture. But, apparently, this isn't a new theory for Catholics. Read below:

"Indeed, he said, evolution could be traced back through Scholastics such as St Thomas Aquinas to St Augustine in the fourth century, who had noted that "big fish eat smaller fish".

Augustine is probably more famous for praying "God, make me good - but not yet." Which also has some evolutionary overtones if you think about it."

Let's clarify something here. I don't think anyone would contest that big fish eat smaller fish. In fact, I don't think anyone would contest the idea of survival of the fittest (natural selection). But where I miss the connection is how they take "big fish eat smaller fish" and turn it into "small fish mutates/morphs into big fish" - much less, "small fish mutates/morphs into BIRD."

And where does "God, make me good - but not yet" have any connection at all to our physical development/creation? I think this author mistakes spiritual growth and health with an evolutionary kind of thinking about man's beginnings.

Finally, they're referring to Intelligent Design as a "cultural phenomenon." Sure, the name ID is new, and there's a lot more force behind it as a movement, but check this out, Catholics - it's been in the Bible the whole time. Yes, really. It's there. In fact, check it out - the first chapter of the first book. Really.

Finally (x2), if you don't believe in God as Creator, you might as well not believe in God at all, or the rest of the Bible, or morality, or absolute truth. It is the foundation of our entire belief.