title: Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)
author:  Stephen J. Pope 
description: "Public conflicts between science and religion tend to pit evolutionary biology against creationist critics, especially where the origins of human life are concerned. Stephen Pope focuses on these issues in Human Evolution and Christian Ethics. Pope argues that evolutionary theory makes important positive contributions to our understanding of human flourishing and the role of faith in the development of human life." <br/>-Christian Century<br /><br />Stephen Pope's Human Evolution and Christian Ethics is a remarkable achievement in the field of science and religion. ... Pope makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on Christian faith and its engagement with evolution." --Anglican Theological Review
zlib_text: July 13, 2005
                                           Lawrence M. Krauss
  Ambrose Swasey Professor, and Director
  Center for Education and Research in 
  Cosmology and Astrophysics
  CWRU
  krauss@cwru.edu
   
  July 12, 2005
   
  His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
  00120 Vatican City
   
  Your Holiness:
   
  In his magnificent letter to the Pontifical Academy in 1996 regarding the subject of 
  Evolution, Pope John Paul II affirmed that scientific rationality and the Church's spiritual 
  commitment to divine purpose and meaning in the Universe were not incompatible.    
  The Pope accepted that biological Evolution had progressed beyond the hypothetical 
  stage as a guiding principle behind the understanding of the evolution of diverse life 
  forms on Earth, including humans.  At the same time, he rightly recognized that the 
  spiritual significance that one draws from the scientific observations and theory lie 
  outside of the scientific theories themselves.  In this sense, claiming that evolution 
  definitely implies