Okay, here’s the quote of the day:

"Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism"

Now, it’s your turn.  Who made this claim?

Was it the ACLU?  Some atheist organization?

Nope.  It was…

The Vatican!

This not going to go down well with evangelicals:

Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth" had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.

He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a "kind of paganism" because it harked back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events.

Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods. "Knowledge is dangerous, but so is ignorance. That’s why science and religion need to talk to each other," he said.

So there you have it.  Scientists have always said that creationism is bad science.  Now the Vatican is saying that creationism is bad theology.

Can we declare creationism dead now and return to, you know, the 21st century?