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Science 25 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5790, p. 1031
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5790.1031d
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George Coyne, the Vatican astronomer who has been a vocal critic of intelligent design, has been fired. Last week, the Vatican announced that Coyne, 73, is being replaced by Argentinian astronomer and Jesuit priest José Gabriel Funes. Last fall, Coyne had a public conflict with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a critic of evolution and close adviser to Pope Benedict XVI.

Coyne, Vatican astronomer since 1978, could not be reached for comment but will remain on the staff of the Vatican Observatory Research group at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who is involved in the evolution conflict, says the news came as "a shock."




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