Creationism == Paganism
Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican Astronomer is my new hero!
Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods. “Knowledge is dangerous, but so is ignorance. That’s why science and religion need to talk to each other,” he said.
“Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.” Link
This is what I have been saying all along. The idea that science, and religion are not compatible is contrived, and silly! One deals with physical, and the other deals with metaphysical. There is no overlap.
Creationism is dumb to the point of being idolatory superstition. As the Vatican astronomer eloquently pointed out it is a belief not fully compatible with the Christian dogma. It dumbs down and belittles faith through crude literalism.
Next time some ID sympathizer, or Creationist approaches me, I will tell him that I cannot possibly take is garbage seriously because Catholic church looks down on idolatory pagan belief systems. 
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