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The Pope Would Like You to Accept Evolution and the Big Bang
Smithsonian ^ | 10/28/14 | Colin Schultz

Posted on 10/29/2014 2:22:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

.... Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, said that Darwinian evolution is real, and so is the Big Bang....

...the new Pope's quasi-heretical claim isn't anywhere near the first of its kind. The church first brought evolution into the fold in 1950 with the work of Pope Pius XII, writes io9. “At the same time, Catholics take no issue with the Big Bang theory, along with cosmological, geological, and biological axioms touted by science.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darwinism; godless; heresy
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The more I hear about and from Francis, the less I think he is fit to be speaking for his faction of Christianity.

Bring back Benedict.

1 posted on 10/29/2014 2:22:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

....and I am not Catholic, btw.


2 posted on 10/29/2014 2:22:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m not Catholic either but he also said there would be no big bang without God.


3 posted on 10/29/2014 2:24:33 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Perhaps he thinks that his job is to lead, not to merely echo what he considers to be the unenlightened beliefs of his followers.


4 posted on 10/29/2014 2:43:51 AM PDT by paristexas
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To: SoFloFreeper

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said.

Denying the omnipotence of God is heresy. This man does not speak as the Vicar of Christ. He is just another crazy Jesuit.


5 posted on 10/29/2014 2:46:20 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: driftdiver

His message about God seems to be subservient to his notion that evolution is credible.

Clearly, the message of the Bible is that God is Creator.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 2:53:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The Pope Would Like You to Accept Evolution and the Big Bang

Does evolution claim that God created man? Because that is what this article quotes the Pope as saying.

7 posted on 10/29/2014 2:54:58 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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The church first brought evolution into the fold in 1950 with the work of Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII said it was permissible for theologians to study it. He also stated that Adam was a real individual from which all men descend, and there were no men before him. He condemned polygenism, which is the opposite view. This is a very far cry from what is claimed in the article concerning Pius XII.

8 posted on 10/29/2014 3:03:07 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: paristexas

He apparently has chosen to downplay the testimony of the ancient texts, whatever his motivation.


9 posted on 10/29/2014 3:03:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Thanks for the clarification.

I gotta tell you, this stuff from Francis seems to be off base.

Our world is going dark, and he is championing a viewpoint that at best downplays man’s need for a Saviour.

The message of Christianity is that man devolved after creation—which is why we need Jesus.


10 posted on 10/29/2014 3:16:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: paristexas

Is a pope was supposed to have “followers”?


11 posted on 10/29/2014 3:21:54 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was taught this as a child in the Catholic Church— Intelligent Design. I agree. Science and Religion are not opposite.


12 posted on 10/29/2014 3:45:06 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: SoFloFreeper

I don’t know which is worse, the slovenly, off-the-cuff way in which Francis casually spouts off heretical propositions or the foul glee of the enemies of the Church who lap it up.

Bring back Benedict indeed.

The Pope MUST distinguish as Pius XII did. There is no theoretical problem with having the human body develop from pre-existing species, and indeed one can see the concept anticipated in St. Augustine’s notions of seminal or potential creation which is only actualized through time.

But the soul is created immediately by God and *is not subject* to any kind of evolutionary change—and how could it be, since it’s not material?

I will add also that the Abbé Lemaitre, who first came up with the Big Bang theory BEGGED the Pope at the time not to push any link with Genesis. He was a good scientist with a theory and didn’t want the Church to fall with a theory that he knew might someday be proved wrong.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 3:49:41 AM PDT by Claud
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“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,”

Yikes. I think I know what he’s saying....but does he not hear himself???


14 posted on 10/29/2014 3:51:12 AM PDT by Claud
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To: oblomov

I think anyone who is head of a large organization will have followers, unless he takes no stance on anything.


15 posted on 10/29/2014 4:07:50 AM PDT by paristexas
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To: NTHockey
"“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said."

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

16 posted on 10/29/2014 4:15:18 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

And God “created” evolution. Evolution is a process, not an agent.


17 posted on 10/29/2014 4:17:00 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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” He was a good scientist with a theory and didn’t want the Church to fall with a theory that he knew might someday be proved wrong.”

I have to agree that the Church has a long history of being wrong in its understanding of the world—its long insistence that the earth was the center of the universe being perhaps the most famous. But I think that Lemaitre’s objection with the Church delving into scientific matters was more fundamental than that it might back the wrong theory:

“It was Lemaître’s firm belief that scientific endeavour should stand isolated from the religious realm. With specific regard to his Big Bang theory, he commented: ‘As far as I can see, such a theory remains entirely outside any metaphysical or religious question.’ Lemaître had always been careful to keep his parallel careers in cosmology and theology on separate tracks, in the belief that one led him to a clearer comprehension of the material world, while the other led to a greater understanding of the spiritual realm... ...Not surprisingly, he was frustrated and annoyed by the Pope’s deliberate mixing of theology and cosmology.” Simon Singh (2010). Big Bang. HarperCollins UK. p. 362


18 posted on 10/29/2014 4:28:48 AM PDT by paristexas
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is not the Pope Catholics need in these dark times. We need direction, clarity, truth! And all we get from him is confusion, misinterpretations, mixed messages.


19 posted on 10/29/2014 4:31:26 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: SoFloFreeper

Totally agree with you but evolutionists real, it doesn’t contradict scripture and Christians should stop making this a theological issue!


20 posted on 10/29/2014 4:31:35 AM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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