Posted on 02/07/2013 6:26:00 AM PST by Alex Murphy
“.how could the creation of the Earth be explained in such a way other than in allegorical form?”
Well, how about a simplified narrative that is at the same time not factually untrue? We do that all the time when explaining things to our children, so it can’t be beyond the capacity of God to do the same.
You have a high opinion of faerie tales.
What is “untrue”?
I think God through the writer of Genesis did an amazing job of explaining the universe using the vocabulary of a bronze age shepherd.
Me? That’s not my quote.
I've asked the same question, but I came to a different answer-it's not true or divinely inspired, just a story written by a very superstitious person without any knowledge of scientific fact or reasoning.
Well, I don’t think anything in Genesis is factually untrue, but apparently the Pope does, so you should probably ask him.
God reveals Himself through His Word and through Nature. And He never contradicts Himself.
So if the Word and the Nature seem to contradict each other than either you have misunderstood Nature or you have misinterpreted the Word.
And this tension will continue until He returns.
It’s the quote of a man who doesn’t consider Genesis a faerie tale.
“just a story written by a very superstitious person without any knowledge of scientific fact or reasoning.”
Wait, when did this thread become about Al Gore and “An Inconvient Truth”?
Post of the Day!
This is very far from the pope's statement and Catholic teaching.
Some seem to try to force a false choice: science or religion. Even with good intentions this has bad results.
LOL!
I don’t think he would describe it in those terms, but that is what he is in fact describing by his statements. Which is why I said originally that I don’t think his position is intellectually consistent.
Yeah, but I'm not a chrstian, so it's all right.
Now if only the Pope would admit that the "virgin birth" isn't scientific either. Unfortunately he is a selective fundamentalist, and therefore a hypocrite.
OK
That's right, baby! Now go back to banging those "awful" Baptists over the head with Thomas Jefferson and leave me alone.
Creation is the acts of GOD!!!! Science is flesh man’s lame attempt to explain the acts of GOD!!!!!
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So the Gospels are the same I suppose.
No need for Jesus to be the Christ, or rise from the dead. Anti science and all that.
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