With Cardinal Schönborn’s intervention, the peace between science and religion that in Old Europe had held almost since the Enlightenment – and at least since the historically hard-won eviction of the Church from politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – seemed suddenly to have been broken.
Kardinál prohlásil, že evoluce je dílem Božím a že evoluční teorie by měla být vykládána v souladu s tím a nijak jinak.