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To: jcb8199
The Church doesn't "support evolution."

Well, then you are disputing this story from the very first sentence which states: "The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support for evolution with an article praising a U.S. court decision that rejects the "intelligent design" theory as non-scientific.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said that teaching intelligent design -- which argues that life is so complex that it needed a supernatural creator -- alongside Darwin's theory of evolution would only cause confusion..."

What other conclusion can I come to than the RCC wants evolution taught to school children but nothing that might conflict with that theory because it would "cause confusion"? Whether you want to call taking such a stand "supporting evolution" or not, I would certainly conclude that it is. Of course, they are free to espouse whatever beliefs they want. On this one, I disagree.

179 posted on 01/19/2006 4:09:16 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: GLDNGUN

Yeah, let's use the AP as a credible source, rather than Catholic resources:

"Concerning biological evolution, the Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him."
http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp

"While not exactly canonizing Darwin, Pius XII did imply that the theory of evolution isn't necessarily inimical to Christianity. Certainly he didn't reject evolution altogether. How then do we explain the big headlines when John Paul II says basically the same thing in 1996?"
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/0102-97/Article3.html

"The Catholic Church has never had a problem with "evolution" (as opposed to philosophical Darwinism, which sees man solely as the product of materialist forces). Unlike Luther and Calvin and modem fundamentalists, the Church has never taught that the first chapter of Genesis is meant to teach science...Pius XII correctly pointed out in the encyclical Humani Generis (1950) that the theory of evolution had not been completely proved, but he did not forbid
that the theory of evolution concerning the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter-for Catholic faith obliges us to hold that human souls are immediately created by God-be investigated and discussed by experts as far as the present state of human science and sacred theology allows (no. 36). "
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Issues/Darwin.html


The Media will latch onto ANYTHING to diminish the influence of the Church, or religion in general.


307 posted on 01/20/2006 6:56:05 AM PST by jcb8199
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