News Flash! Pope credits God for creation of Universe

A strange story from Reuters.  The Pope is basically saying the obvious, that no matter what theories happen to be coming down the pike, remember God is behind it all.  And of course theories are theories are theories.  They say if everyone who had sold something to someone based on credit suddenly wanted their money, our economy would collapse (which may be what happened, I dunno).  I often wonder if we stopped and looked at just how much of what we think is true is just a theory based on a theory that assumes another theory that was founded on a previous theory, just how shocked we would be. 

All the more reason not to chuck God out the window just because the latest scientific theory purports to explain how the magician did his trick.  What struck me was why this made it into a news story.  What's the news?   Sure, it's from a message Pope Benedict gave on Thursday (or today in my neck of the woods).  But there's really nothing big here.  It isn't as if the Pope suddenly reversed course, or made some bold proclamation that it's time Christians believe in atheism or something. 

When I see stories like this that more or less make news about the fact that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, I have to believe it's for some other reason than just telling us something most folks already know.  My hunch?  Just so the journalist could include this little segment that wrapped up the story:

"Benedict and his have predecessor John Paul been trying to shed the Church's image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible."

That would be John Paul II by the way.  I love how they assume all of this 'science is OK' stuff is just an elaborate strategy to undo a former reality that wasn't that real.  If anything, the journalist does well to point out that it was just a label that stuck, rather than an accurate appraisal of the historical facts.  Who knows, perhaps that's the biggest news in the story: journalist admits what most historians know, that the Church was not anti-science or anti-knowledge.  That was just 'a label that stuck.'  For that alone, perhaps it was worth the print.