Pope Tells Hawking Not to Study Origins of Universe

At least he isn't trying to claim, "This is because the Catholics are treacherous and hate knowledge. Unlike us Protestant fundamentalist true Christians, who love scientific knowledge and the diversity of opinion."

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline