"Never let science become the criterion for goodness" and thus let man be "subjected to ideological manipulations", "arbitrary decisions" and the "abuse of the stronger over the weaker". This is the warning given this morning by Benedict XVI to the members of the Papal Academies (of Science, Social Science, Moral and Political Science, and the Catholic Institute of Paris), who promoted in Rome a meeting on Tthe changing identity of the individual". At a time in which "natural and human science said the Pope have reached awesome progress about the knowledge of man and man’s universe, great is the temptation to totally circumscribe the identity of the human being" within the given knowledge. Not to "set out on such a road", it is important "to keep in man the mystery which is his own, because no science can say what man is, where he comes from and where he goes". "Man added the Pope is always beyond what can be seen or what can be felt from experience". Then the Pope commented that the mystery of the human being is marked by "otherness", the fact, that is, of "being created by God, a being in the semblance of God". (continued)” “
