“Darwin was right about natural selection, right about different species forming and species changing, but wrong that such changes are a mechanism to change one kind of animal into a totally different kind."
Ken Ham
The founder of Answers in Genesis, which operates a museum in Petersburg, Ky., advocating creationism, was explaining why the museum opened an exhibit that affirms Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection while rejecting his teachings on evolution. (RNS)
“Why do you do this? What are you doing to yourselves, you wonderful, generous people? You are brutalizing yourselves. … It is making you an obscene nation.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The African prelate was upbraiding the United States for its continued practice of the death penalty. He spoke at New York City’s Riverside Church. (RNS)
“I hear that closely following the news available on the Internet would have made it possible to obtain knowledge of the problem in time. I learn from this that we at the Holy See have to pay more careful attention to this news source in the future.”
Pope Benedict XVI
The pope was acknowledging he was taken by surprise at the international furor surrounding his decision to readmit a Holocaust-denying bishop to the Catholic Church. (RNS)