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Francis I on a “Plan Inscribed in Nature”

This papacy is starting off nicely, in a number of ways. Here’s one. Pope Francis I, in his installation Mass homily, delivered on Tuesday:

Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be “protectors” of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

The obvious religious context aside — he’s the Pope, after all — plans being “inscribed in nature” is language pregnant with significance. From Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (p. 347):

Our uniform experience affirms that specified information — whether inscribed hieroglyphics, written in a book, encoded in a radio signal, or produced in a simulation experiment — always arises from an intelligent source, from a mind and not a strictly material process.

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Evolution News
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of six books including The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy and, with Senator Joseph Lieberman, The Gift of Rest. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.

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