Science too narrow to explain creation

Pope says science too narrow to explain creation

PARIS (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question.

****It would be better to say that Science cannot, and will not reach to the level of ultimateness, when it is asked about the origins of things.   It can only raise answers - on the grounds of sense experience, and the wings of probability - to things that are given to materiality.  And it will remain there. 

Instead of saying that science does not believe in God, it is better to say that science needs not to posit his existence.  St. Thomas' Aquinas hinted at this when he asked about the question on the Existence of God. 

"Objection 2. Further, it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle which is nature; and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence."

SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The existence of God (Prima Pars, Q. 2)

To which, he answered:

Reply to Objection 2. Since nature works for a determinate end under the direction of a higher agent, whatever is done by nature must needs be traced back to God, as to its first cause. So also whatever is done voluntarily must also be traced back to some higher cause other than human reason or will, since these can change or fail; for all things that are changeable and capable of defect must be traced back to an immovable and self-necessary first principle, as was shown in the body of the Article.