By TIMES ONLINE
Added: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Evolution and the Biblical account of Genesis are "perfectly compatible" claims the Catholic Church

Richard Owen in Rome

The Vatican has rejected the claim by Richard Dawkins, the biologist and campaigning atheist, that evolutionary theory proves that God does not exist, proclaiming that on the contrary Darwinian evolution and the account of Creation in Genesis are "perfectly compatible".

At a five day conference held to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species this week, Vatican theologians said while Christians believed that God "created all things", the Vatican "does not stand in the way of scientific realities".

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