Just days after the Pope warned against "superstitious religions" (!!!), Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno
describes creationism as:
a "kind of paganism" because it harks back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events.
He's wrong, most creationists don't claim that God is responsible for natural events. Rather, they claim that events like the creation of man are
entirely God's work, with no natural explanation at all.
And is the Vatican now admitting that God
isn't responsible for natural events? Sounds like deism to me...
Finally, about the Pope, he says:
It's not like he has a magic power, that God whispers the truth in his ear.