Yes, and so did God when He told Isaiah to write about it in chapter 40. Maybe the Pope missed that one a few ages ago but that’s because he was never much of a Bible reader. There is so much scripture that speaks of a young earth that if wasn’t true, the whole Bible would be discredited. The very idea of sin being the cause of death and suffering is nuked macro-evolution. Zillions of years before Adam sinned in the garden dinosaurs were dying and suffering. Why? Because God is cruel?
and the Dinos could have eaten Adam and Eve..
Pope Benedict XVI is a biblical scholar. You betray your ignorance and bigotry in claiming “he was never much of a Bible reader”.