Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex on the discussion:

In the end, Schoenborn gives a penetrating criticism of Catholics who thought themselves to have given him a lesson or two in regard to his controversial NYT piece. These Catholics – and Barr is tentatively included among them (though Schoenborn would want him to say more on the issue, to make his position more clear) – have apparently agreed to be fitted by the Neo-Darwinists with an intellectual straightjacket. They have consented to the implicit theology of Neo-Darwinism (and Schoenborn does not at all back down in this article from pointing out that it has this aspect); that is, they have accepted the confinement of human reason to the realm of material and efficient causality alone, claiming that reason cannot “grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.” In other words, such Catholics succumb to fideism, accepting the confines of intellectual materialism as the Neo-Darwinists ask them to do, never questioning whether reason can, through empirical observation, bring formal and final causality back into its domain, or whether it can reach to the existence of the God who orders evolution. More importantly, they never ask about the methodological weakness of Neo-Darwinism itself, and succumb to the unacceptably narrow theology that results from fideism. Instead of accepting this situation, Schoenborn tells us, Catholics need to defeat the ideology of science. This requires a philosophical approach that is open to the totality of reality, not simply to its material causes.

I’d like to see Schönborn v. Coyne, myself. Pay-per-view. I’d pay to view. Wouldn’t you?

And do note…following somewhat along the trail blazed by the Ratzinger Fan Club, the Schönborn Site!

This website strives to provide up-to-date information on Christopher Cardinal Schönborn, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna and one of the youngest members of the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals.