[MEGoody]

"The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator".

While I agree that salvation is not dependent on whether one believes in a literal 6 day creation or in evolution orchestrated by God, who the hell does this Cardinal think he is to tell "fundamentalists" as he calls them what they should believe about Genesis.

Cardinal, stop telling other believers what they should do about such a non-salvation related issue and deal with the obvious problems in your own church.

[jcb8199]

So you are saying that Genesis is a scientific treatise? Not a method of conveying to pagans and polythesists the idea of a loving, personal God who created us all?