Posted on 04/23/2011 8:37:58 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI marked the holiest night of the year for Christians by stressing that humanity isn't a random product of evolution.
Benedict emphasized the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily Saturday, saying it was wrong to think at some point "in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and of trying to find rationality within creation, or to bring rationality into it."
"If man were merely a random product of evolution in some place on the margins of the universe, then his life would make no sense or might even be a chance of nature," he said. "But no, reason is there at the beginning: creative, divine reason."
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Unfortunately, the current Pope is still a theistic evolutionist and higher critic.
In fact evolution has nothing to do with man. Theistic evolution is darwin-evolution-lite. There’s no reason why the bible isn’t accurate and God made man as described. If he can raise the dead He can make a man out of the ground. If He can make the entire universe just by speaking it into existence there is no need for evolution and the account of the bible is what it says it is.
He is Risen!
“If He can make the entire universe just by speaking it into existence there is no need for evolution and the account of the bible is what it says it is.
He is Risen!”
Amen and God bless
No, the pope is not a theistic evolutionist. To be an evolutionist one has to accept the synthesis of Julian Huxley and others, which postulates the randomness that the pope rejects. And while he admires Theilhard de Chardin, he rejects his theology which tries to incorporate evolution into Catholicism as other Jesuits try to incorporate Marxism.
Whereever you may be in your thinking, one thing is certain: it owes something to “organized religion.” You are like the fish who is oblivious to the water in which it swims. Your very language bespeaks of it.
Sounds like at least one person in the Vatican gets it...
Yup, that's inevitable, given that what the Bible describes just doesn't happen in real life.
He may reject randomness, but he certainly does not reject evolution per se, and he apparently rejects all forms of instantaneous creation.
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We all daily live by faith. Go to sleep at night and have faith that you'll wake up in the morning. The examples of assuming that something will happen though we have yet to see it come to pass are legion. Faith is not opposed to reason. Some things in the Bible need to be taken by blind faith, while others are backed up by history, archaeology, and science.
Hence my point that he is a "theistic" evolutionist--one who believes that evolution is guided by Divine Providence. But he still rejects the facticity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis.
Since when does the church recognize reason? Whenever I try and talk "reasonably" with someone who is a follower of organized/revealed religion, the person with whom I'm conversing inevitably falls back on the "faith" argument.
Yup, that's inevitable, given that what the Bible describes just doesn't happen in real life.
Neither do the events described in the creation myths of "indigenous pipples," but I have yet to hear of any scientist or liberal politician say so.
Dei Verbum:
“Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings (5) for the sake of salvation.”
The medieval exegetes taught a carefully nuanced four-fold interpretation of scripture, understanding that the Bible has literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical meanings.
Faith and reason go to together. Try reading Fide et Ratio by Pope John Paul II.
The following paragraph is totally wrong.....
The Vatican, however, warns against creationism, or the overly literal interpretation of the Bibilical account of creation.
That is just a statement made by a persons not filled with the Spirit of Christ, simple as that!
"You just might be the lunatic we're looking for" :)
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