More welcome news

An article in today's New York Times discusses an article in the Vatican's official newspaper regarding the Dover decision:

The official Vatican newspaper published an article this
week labeling as "correct" the recent decision by a judge in Pennsylvania
that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to
evolution.

"If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should
search for another," Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology
at the University of Bologna, wrote in the Jan. 16-17 edition of the paper,
L'Osservatore Romano.

"But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the
field of science while pretending to do science," he wrote, calling
intelligent design unscientific. "It only creates confusion between the
scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious."


The article continues from there. Anyway, while I won't be surprised see some some comments coming out in the other direction, I'm still very happy to see this. If these people would just look among the faculty, grad students, and postdocs at basically every instution, they would find scientists of all religious stripes... although I still think my own future might include being burned and/or drowned as a witch... :)