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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darwinism; godless; heresy
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To: Impy; Bender2; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

Might be time to convert. I have a recommendation or two.


121 posted on 10/30/2014 2:58:21 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
If the entirety of man's appearance, to include his development from single-celled organism to a being with a soul made in the likeness of his Creator, was set in motion by an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent God from nothing, with no other agent of influence upon it other than that Creator, then ALL of it is supernatural.

Can you show me where this notion appears in an authoritative text on evolution?

122 posted on 10/30/2014 8:03:35 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

Obviously, the significant difference between man and other animals is his soul. Otherwise, we share enough of the same biological characteristics to be included as mammals. It is the appearance of that soul that would appear to be the defining miracle of humanity, while the biological development of our corporeal selves seems plainly to have occurred in the same manner as that of the other animals.


123 posted on 10/31/2014 6:12:20 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Can you show me where this notion appears in an authoritative text on evolution?

Probably not.

Why?

124 posted on 10/31/2014 6:16:41 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Probably not. Why?

Well, IIRC, I made the remark that evolution presupposes that God did not create man, and in response to that you gave me a particular formulation of "evolution", so I would like to know which evolution text affirms your formulation.

125 posted on 10/31/2014 6:20:40 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Oh well.


126 posted on 10/31/2014 6:28:46 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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