The pope demonstrates the difference between scientific thinking and faith again.

And he shows a profound lack of knowledge again.

God was behind the big bang?

"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said

Well first of all I do not know any reasonable person that wants to tell me that the universe is the result of chance. I haven't yet seen anybody who knows how the big bang came to be. There are enough ideas about that certainly, but thats about it.

Anyway, since the pope states that it is not the result of chance but something else I would expect him to state what exactly it was that caused all and what evidence he has for that. As we know however faith differs from science by lacking evidence and not even bothering about that.

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