"....... Pope John Paul II, in a General Audience on 24 January 1986, addressed the issue and said that "The theory of natural evolution, understood in a sense that does not exclude divine causality, is not in principle opposed to the truth about the creation of the visible world, as presented in the Book of Genesis."
Now that is silly. Evolution IS in principle opposed to the truth about creation of the visible world, as presented in the book of Genesis. Why? Because evolution cannot explain how creation came to be. I have no doubt that evolution can happen in the sense that people can become larger by eating better food and so forth. But evolution has no answer for the creation itself. This came from God, as Genesis duly notes.
I don't agree with theistic macroevolutionists any more than I agree with atheistic macroevolutionists.
Nonsense.
Why? Because evolution cannot explain how creation came to be
Nonsense on stilts. Not being inclined to have an opinion about something in no manner demonstrates that you are opposed to or in favor of it. Science is neutral on the subject of divine intervention. For aught science can say about it, now or ever, divine intervention may be guiding every sperm to it's divinely pre-ordained egg by physically indetectable, supernatural means. Science confines itself to opinions about what can be physically detected.
Nonsense.
Why? Because evolution cannot explain how creation came to be
Nonsense on stilts. Not being inclined to have an opinion about something in no manner demonstrates that you are opposed to or in favor of it. Science is neutral on the subject of divine intervention. For aught science can say about it, now or ever, divine intervention may be guiding every sperm to it's divinely pre-ordained egg by physically indetectable, supernatural means. Science confines itself to opinions about what can be physically detected.