People need to know the Church is not anti-science

(Photo: Robert A. Millikan, Fr Georges Lemaitre SJ and Albert Einstein at California Institute of Technology, January 1933)

In the November issue of the Catholic Herald, Dominican friar Robert Verrill wisely points out that: “Science and religion need not be opposed if we read Scripture sensibly.” In his “Dismissing Darwin’s bulldog” article, Father Robert concludes by pointing out that St Augustine was highly critical of Christians who made evidently false claims about the nature of the earth and the heavens based on misinterpreting scripture. “If we follow the advice of St Augustine,” he says, “then we can do our part in eradicating the myth that science and religion are in conflict with one another.”