Could there be a more fitting way to begin this blog?

For this inaugural post, I--the heretical half of the co-authors of this blog--have chosen to discuss the biggest pile of crap built on a lie ever: religion! The Associated Press reports that Pope Benedict XVI says that Darwin's theory of evolution can't be proven and that he "cautioned that evolution raises philosophical questions science alone cannot answer."

Science may not be able to answer them--yet--but at least scientists don't say that they know the answer and that the answer is some magical sky being that supposedly controls everything even though the only "proof" of this is an old, dusty book that came into vogue 2,000 or so years ago and whose veracity is doubted by a whole lot of people (Muslims, atheists, etc.).

The article also said:

Benedict added that the immense time span that evolution covers made it impossible to conduct experiments in a controlled environment to finally verify or disprove the theory.

"We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory," he said.

But I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old?