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To: jodiluvshoes

The Catholic Church NEVER disavowed evolution!!! Or stated that it is in conflict with the faith.... there are a lot of folks who are very very ignorant of the Catholic Church if they find this a shock. Since at least the 1950s if not before they have stated that it is NOT in conflict with the faith, and that it deserved further study.

The Catholic Church is not evangelical.. it does not teach that the bible is 100% literal, and never has. In fact, Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Summa Theologica published way way back in the 1200's, stated that evolution (change) in all things is one of the observable ways we can know God exists, because for any change to happen, something else must have changed first....... and for that previous thing to change, must have been acted on by something else... etc etc... which takes you back to the original creator which is God.

Change in all things, has been accepted as part of evidence of God's existence in Catholic Faith, since at least the 1200's. The notion that evolution conflicts with Catholicism is nonsense, and not accurate to the church's stand at all. Only ignorant Catholics, or evangelicals who aren't familiar with Catholicism are "shocked" to find out that the Church does not find evolution at conflict with the faith.


110 posted on 11/14/2005 8:35:28 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

>The Catholic Church is not evangelical.. it does not teach that the bible is 100% literal, and never has<

You and several others keep talking as if Protestants consider the Bible to be 100% literal.I know of no denominations that make this claim.


124 posted on 11/14/2005 8:52:19 AM PST by Blessed
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