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Your word choice tells me you’re a (insert non-personal, non-judgmental attack here)... you guys are so good at popping into these threads and calling names then using scripture against believers. I don’t happen to worship at the temple of Darwin. Call it what you wish and point to whatever you’d like, but your beliefs are entirely inconsistent with the Word of God. I don’t give a flip what any man says. If it contradicts the Word then the Pope is wrong.

And, as an aside... why can’t you all figure out not all Christians are Catholic? It boggles the mind how small your collective world is.

"Call it what you wish and point to whatever you’d like, but your beliefs are entirely inconsistent with the Word of God. I don’t give a flip what any man says."

I am not here to undermine your faith or demand that you accept God in exactly the same way I do, I am only here to explain how my beliefs and those of 800 million Catholics differ from yours. I will remind you that every word of the bible was first given to man who then gave it to you. As all men are imperfect and flawed so then may be the specific version of the word you have received.

In a 1981 address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope John Paul II taught that the creation passages are in the Bible “not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise, but in order to state the correct relationships of man with God and with the universe.”

In an interview that was published in 1997, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) stated: Part of faith is also the patience of time. The theme you have just mentioned - Darwin, creation, the theory of evolution - is the subject of a dialog that is not yet finished and, within our present means, is probably also impossible to settle at the moment. Not that the problem of the six days is a particularly urgent issue between faith and modern scientific research into the origin of the world. For it is obvious even in the Bible that this is a theological framework and is not intended simply to recount the history of creation. In the Old Testament itself there are other accounts of creation. In the Book of Job and in the Wisdom literature we have creation narratives that make it clear that even then believers themselves did not think that the creation account was, so to speak, a photographic depiction of the process of creation. It only seeks to convey a glimpse of the essential truth, namely, that the world comes from the power of God and is his creation. How the process actually occurred is a wholly different question, which even the Bible itself leaves wide open. Conversely, I think that in great measure the theory of evolution has not gotten beyond hypotheses and is often mixed with almost mythical philosophies that have yet to be critically discussed.

Pax Vubiscum.