If you don't think Benedict XVI was elevated to the Throne of Peter by the Hand of God, you haven't been paying attention.

Pope cites Universe's "Intelligent Project"

Pope Benedict XVI has waded into the evolution debate in the United States, (Read that again, kiddies. See the creeping editorial? - F.G.) saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order.

Obviously.

He quoted St. Basil the Great, a fourth century saint, as saying some people, "fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance."

"How many of these people are there today? These people, fooled by atheism, believe and try to demonstrate that it's scientific to think that everything is free of direction and order," he said.

"With the sacred Scripture, the Lord awakens the reason that sleeps and tells us: In the beginning, there was the creative word. In the beginning, the creative word this word that created everything and created this intelligent project that is the cosmos is also love."

And that is, as they say, that.