The heretics' adherence to biblical inerrancy is even more so. They find evolution "evil" yet they're unwilling to set fire to witches, just like the Old Testament sez, even though the witches happen to be their inconveniently closely-related sisters in law, dammit.
Bah. The reason why biblical inerrantists are allergic to evolution is because it points up their heresy to be the lie that it is.
The Pope is absolutely right.... evolution is true, as is Genesis, read correctly (i.e., as poetry).
Another genius makes his mark on FR. No Pope has ever said that evolution is true. The only two Popes to make statements on evolution were Pius XII and JPII. Pius XII said that Catholics may study both sides of the evolution debate, but in the same Encyclical he denounced evolution as being a doctrinal antagonist and expressed his belief that the theory would soon enough fall on its face.
Pope JPII read a letter which was written by the head (scientist) of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He allegedly read a line from that letter that stated: "evolution is more than just a theory";
and on this one sentence spoken privately to scientists the non-Catholic world makes the reprehensible allegation that the Catholic Church backs Charles Darwin. The Church does NOT back Darwin's evolution, and the charge is just another typical slander by ignorant or biggoted non-Catholics.
Catholic scholars explaining this statement have said that by the time the French translation appeared in the English speaking secular media they had butchered the Pope's actual statement, which was probably more like: "there is more than one theory of evolution". But in any case, the Holy Father was merely giving his own personal thoughts on the subject, as was NOT declaring it to be Catholic belief. In fact, when he read that statement it was addressed directly to scientists of the Ponfifical Acedemy, and had nothing whatsoever to do with official Catholic teaching.
The Catholic teaching of Papal infallibility is not what most non-Catholics, (and even many Catholics), think it is. This 'infallibility' is strictly limited to matters of salvation, (faith and morals), hence it is extremely narrow in scope. Any Pope can speak or treat of any subject whatsover that is not involved with doctrinal beliefs, and when he does so he does it strictly as a private doctor. The ignorance out there by non-Catholics is astounding sometimes.