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"No science can say who man is, where he came from or where he is going," the pope said Jan. 28 in a speech to participants in a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences.
"In our age, when scientific developments attract and seduce because of the possibilities they offer, it is more important than ever to educate the consciences of our contemporaries so that science never becomes the criteria of goodness, and so that man is respected as the center of creation and does not become the object of ideological manipulation," the pope said.
sometime back he made an offensive statement about islam... and now he offends science... wonder whats next... jews? hmmm... that'll be interesting :)
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I don't think he has said anything offensive about science. There are certain things which are beyond the realm of science - and he is trying to draw caution against science going overboard.
Also the two paragraphs cited must be read in its context. (See below)
In the end, Pope Benedict said, love is the truest guide to discovering human identity.
"Love leads one out of oneself to discover and recognize the other," he said. "Opening oneself to another also affirms the identity of the subject because the other reveals me to myself."
Christ gave the greatest example of love and the clearest lesson that it is precisely in loving others that one's identity is revealed, he said.
"In the act of giving his life for his brothers and sisters, of giving himself totally, he manifested his deepest identity and gave us the key for reading the unfathomable mystery of his being and his mission," he said.
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