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To: FreeReign
I'm a Christian who believes in evolution.

Then either one or both of these subjects must be poorly understood by you.

1,338 posted on 12/13/2009 4:56:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Then either one or both of these subjects must be poorly understood by you.

That's your opinion and I think it's lacking in intelligent thought.

1,354 posted on 12/13/2009 8:28:00 AM PST by FreeReign
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"Then either one or both of these subjects must be poorly understood by you."

ROME (AP) — A Vatican cardinal said yesterday that the Catholic Church does not stand in the way of scientific realities like evolution, though he described as “absurd” the atheist notion that evolution proves there is no God.

Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reiterated church teaching about faith and science at the start of a Vatican-sponsored conference marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.”

Speaking on the sidelines of the conference, Levada said the Vatican believed there was a “wide spectrum of room” for belief in both the scientific basis for evolution and faith in God the creator.

“We believe that however creation has come about and evolved, ultimately God is the creator of all things,” he said.

He said although the Vatican did not exclude any area of science, it did reject as “absurd” the atheist notion of biologist and author Richard Dawkins and others that evolution proves there is no God.

“Of course we think that’s absurd and not at all proven,” he said. “But other than that ... the Vatican has recognized that it doesn’t stand in the way of scientific realities.”

The Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI has been trying to stress its belief that there is no incompatibility between faith and reason.

1,358 posted on 12/13/2009 9:03:01 AM PST by Natural Law
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