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Pope: Creation vs. evolution clash an ‘absurdity’
MSNBC ^
| 7/24/2007
Posted on 07/25/2007 12:57:22 PM PDT by mngran
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries particularly the United States and his native Germany between creationism and evolution was an absurdity, saying that evolution can coexist with faith.
The pontiff, speaking as he was concluding his holiday in northern Italy, also said that while there is much scientific proof to support evolution, the theory could not exclude a role by God.
They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other, the pope said. This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.
He said evolution did not answer all the questions: Above all it does not answer the great philosophical question, Where does everything come from?
Benedict also said the human race must listen to the voice of the Earth or risk destroying its very existence.
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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: catholic; climatechange; crevo; europe; europeans; evoloution; evolution; globalwarming; heresy; ikantspel; intelligentdesign; pope; postedinwrongforum; vaticancoupdetat
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To: mngran
saying that evolution can coexist with faith.
THANK YOU! This is what I've been saying on all these FR evolution debates. The Church accepts evolution as a theory. The earth is not 6000 years old, come on the fossil record proves that wrong. God created the first pre-Cambrian slime, and from that created the rest of life via what we call evolution. As far as humans go, I'm not a theologian so I'll say no more than we were created by God in His image. But have you noticed that the description of creation in the Bible is in striking similarity to the order that life evolved on earth? First He created the seas--water was present on earth before life. Then He created the sea creatures--they were the first forms of life to appear on earth. He created the bacteria first, then the fishes and vertebrates perhaps by having them evolve from the bacteria. Then He created the plants on the land--plants colonized land early while there was still sea life. Then He created the land animals--as we see, the lizards and dinosaurs and insects came first, then the mammals. Again, perhaps He differentiated life on land through what we see as evolution, but it is called "created" in the Bible, because He did create them--by having them evolve from other animals. And lastly, He created man. And man has only been around for a million years or so. I'm not saying this is THE way it happened, I am only speculating as to why the Church does accept evolution as a theory and doesn't reject it instead. They can coexist.
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08/02/2007 9:55:31 PM PDT
by
G8 Diplomat
(Twelve years of public school and still sane!)
To: bigcat32
I refuse to bet my future on the astronomical odds that the infinitely complex human body is a result of random mutatations from non life. That idea breaks the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, breaks the law of common sense and is for the mathematically challenged. Have you ever considered reading up on biology and how evolution is changing life on earth?
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08/12/2007 11:10:34 PM PDT
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Danbert
(NCSE member)
To: Danbert
“Have you ever considered reading up on biology and how evolution is changing life on earth?”
What do you mean by “evolution”? People use that term in many different ways. Some definitions are easily proven and others are a pipe dream.
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