[Jaime2099]

" “there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”

Pope Benedict XVI"

Yes, but what type of Evolution is he referring to? Do you think all Evolution is equal? It most certainly is not. All species from one species, plant Evolution, animal Evolution, Evolution inside the same species, because there is science for some of those, but others are complete made up fairy tales.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Yes, but what type of Evolution is he referring to?

Probably not the atheistic soul-denying evolution that allmendream wants everyone to believe.

"theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the spirit as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man." [John Paul II]

[Nikas777]

I find that in the West many Christians in the last century or so try to use science to prove the existence of God or a miracle, etc.

This seems like a Western Christian way of viewing the world and what I mean by that is that to Eastern Christians, God and his works are a mystery so to use science or worldly knowledge to uncover proof of God’s hand is a waste of time such as searching for Noah’s flood, or the real Garden of Eden, etc.

An Eastern Christian would for example have the view that physics is a measure of the world and God is knowable so how can he be quantified?

Science is a measure of the natural world. God dwells (according to Christian theology) in the ‘supernatural’ world. Hence science is not designed to measure the supernatural world so why use it to do so?

Of course this leads to the conclusion that there is no supernatural world because science can not detect it but science can’t detect alternate realities either and evidence exists via a theoretical model for those but that gets into philosophy and philosophy is not empirical science.

[allmendream]

The Pope is referring to biological evolution, of which there is, as he says, much scientific proof in favor of, and which enriches our understanding of life and being.

[Nikas777]

I screwed a line up - should read: An Eastern Christian would for example have the view that physics is a measure of the world and God is knowable Unknowable so how can he be quantified?