Vatican's Astronomer

Scotsman.com News - International - Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer

Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods. "Knowledge is dangerous, but so is ignorance. That's why science and religion need to talk to each other," he said.

Such an interesting perspective that I rarely contemplate. I guess, being a recovering Catholic, I always perceived the God in Catholicism as a supernatural one. A different thought process has now kicked off for me...