THE CATHOLIC CHURCH EMBRACES EVOLUTION!!!!

MuscleHead Revolution ^ | 11.14.2005 | Kevin McCullough

[jodiluvshoes]

In a remarkably odd statement this past week, the Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin!

In fact Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture said that "if the Bible were read correctly" that the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible."

"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".

He went on to advocate that the idea of creation is a theological one, while the substance of origins is a scientific one and that Catholics should "know" how science sees such things so as to "understand better."

[Blessed]

>Faith cannot contradict reason.,

Explain the resurection or water converted to wine.

[banalblues]

Agreed.

[todd1]

I'm in a Catholic Bible Study and we are told that it is true. God repeats himself and prepares us for Jesus throughout Genesis. It is simply amazing. I would recommend any Catholics out there to get the "Jeff Cavins time line Bible Study". It is absolutely amazing.

[todd1]

"Yes, otherwise they would not disregard Jesus' command to "call NO man your father."

I say this with love but why then did people call Abraham father? As Catholics, we are taught that what Jesus meant by this was in a spiritual sense.

[curiosity]

Explain the resurection or water converted to wine.

They're miracles, examples of God deliberately doing something that violates the laws of nature.

What's your point?

[Blessed]

The point is they are examples of faith contradicting reason.

[muir_redwoods]

"To say that God is the creator, and evolution is true, is to be either a glaring hypocrite, stupid, or a liar."

To fail to understand how both could be true is to be all three

[Windsong]

To fail to understand how both could be true is to be all three

Just give it a few more years, and you'll state the same about homosexuality, and all the "understandin" that entails.

[curiosity]

How do they contradict reason?

[curiosity]

Evolution linked to homosexuality placemarker.

[PatrickHenry]

Everyone seems to bring his own perspective to the subject.

[curiosity]

The homosexuality thing, though, seems to come up quite a lot. I wonder what Freud would say?

[The Cuban]

Go ahead miss the point. Misdirection does not make a good response.

[The Cuban]

And why are there Gregorian Chants from the 9th Century reffering to the Earth as an Orb?

[aNYCguy]

since the TOE is based on actual randomness and chance, and stoutly denies any plan or planmaker, to try to fit the TOE and the understanding of God planning a creation is trying to fit two things together that just don't agree.

The theory of evolution makes no claims, positive or negative, about any gods, yours or anyone else's. The theory of evolution, as a scientific theory, does not address the supernatural in any fashion.

[Cronos]

Yers, I guess all of us should call our fathers pops or by their first name, eh>? /sarcasm

[Cronos]

The Catholic Church has never been,nor ever will be a reliable source of scientific understanding.

REally? Then how come some of the most prominent astronomers in the middle ages were Priests or monks? As were the herbologists etc.?

[Cronos]

Science is not atheism. If a science studies how God works, it's not atheism. Science CANNOT state how exactly creation happens -- that's no better than conjecture. It CAN explain what we can see / feel of God's works.

[Cronos]

canonize Martin Luther.

Not knowing enough about M. Luther, I don't know if he could or could not meet the criteria for a saint. He probably did. Red, please could you tell us your thoughts?

[Cronos]

Hitler was born a Catholic. Yeah, so what. He was no longer a Catholic after WWI and definitely not when he became the monster of NaziGermany. Ditto for Stalin and the Orthodoxy. You want to blame the Catholic Church for one idiot who left it? Next, you'll want to blame, the Southern Baptists for Clinton?