Your problem here is that belief in evolution is not limited to a bunch of drug crazed evo-athiest, Obamabots on FR that you think are gleefgully fabricating false science for the purposes of tugging on God's nose hairs. Christianities largest denomination, with a billion (with a "B") Roman Catholic Church supports Theistic Evolution as do many of the Catholics on FR. As so eloquently states by cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI in "In the Beginning...." A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall;
It says that the Bible is not a natural science textbook, nor does it intend to be such. It is a religious book, and consequently one cannot obtain information about the natural sciences from it. One cannot get from it a scientific explanation of how the world arose; one can only glean religious experience from it. Anything else is an image and a way of describing things whose aim is to make profound realities graspable to human beings. One must distinguish between the form of portrayal and the content that is portrayed. The form would have been chosen from what was understandable at the time -- from the images which surrounded the people who lived then, which they used in speaking and in thinking, and thanks to which they were able to understand the greater realities. And only the reality that shines through these images would be what was intended and what was truly enduring. Thus Scripture would not wish to inform us about how the different species of plant life gradually appeared or how the sun and the moon and the stars were established. Its purpose ultimately would be to say one thing: God created the world.
So be careful whom you call an idiot. That group includes many who are vastly your intellectual superior.
So the pope is wrong about not being able to use the Bible to gain scientific insight. This guy figured a whole bunch of stuff out from his study of Scripture 800 years ago according to Gerald Schroeder.
“Nachmanides explains that on Day One, time was created. That’s a phenomenal insight. Time was created. You can’t grab time. You don’t even see it. You can see space, you can see matter, you can feel energy, you can see light energy. I understand a creation there. But the creation of time? Eight hundred years ago, Nachmanides attained this insight from the Torah’s use of the phrase, “Day One.” And that’s exactly what Einstein taught us in the Laws of Relativity: that there was a creation, not just of space and matter, but of time itself.”
The Age of the Universe
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ageoftheuniverse/index?tab=articles
It’s irrelevant what the pope’s pronouncements about the Bible are. He may dictate beliefs for the Catholic Church, but that’s as far as it goes. If he wants to tell Catholics that Genesis is allegory, that’s certainly his prerogative, but that doesn’t make it so.
Besides, does the Catholic Church really teach that man evolved from some ape like ancestor, instead of being created in the image of God from the dust of the earth, as the Bible teaches?
Is the pope saying the Bible is wrong about that?
From the content of most of the posts by the evos on any crevo thread posted by creationists, that's pretty debatable.
Besides, be a scientist. Back it up. Provide the links and documentation to prove it.
Tell me....
Is this science friendly Catholic Church the same Catholic Church that was involved in that Galileo thing?
Just wondering......