POPE THROWS SUPPORT TO DARWIN'S EVOLUTION.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: October 25, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In his most comprehensive statement yet on evolution, Pope John Paul II insisted that faith and science can coexist, telling scientists that Darwin's theories are sound as long as they take into account that creation was the work of God.

The pope's message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a lay organization meeting in Rome this week, recalled how Pope Pius XII proclaimed in 1950 that evolutionary doctrine was a ``serious hypothesis.''

In the statement r...