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To: Natural Law
"Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister, said today that the theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible. The Vatican discourages literal interpretations of the Bible, including the literal interpretation of creationism that is at odds with the very solid scientific theory of evolution."

"Ravasi said it this way: Creationism belongs to the “strictly theological sphere” and could not be used “ideologically in science.”

First of all, thank you so very much for completely avoiding the point I made. It really gives me confidence. And second of all, your splitting of "truth" into "scientific" and "theological" spheres gives the lie to the common theistic evolutionist slogan that "all truth is one."

"Reason" simply refers to the internal consistency of thought. It does not assume naturalism, uniformitarianism, or any other such thing. One may begin with the uniformitarian assumption and create a worldview that is 100% reasonable. One may also begin with the assumption that Genesis is literally and historically true and accurate and create a worldview that is just as reasonable.

The use of the word "reason" as an antonym for "science" is in error.

1,362 posted on 12/13/2009 9:23:14 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vaya`an Yosef 'et-Par`oh le'mor bil`aday; 'Eloqim ya`aneh 'et-shelom Par`oh.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"The use of the word "reason" as an antonym for "science" is in error."

Contact the Vatican press office and maybe you can get them to issue a correction.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/

1,364 posted on 12/13/2009 9:28:22 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The use of the word "reason" as an antonym for "science" is in error.

By who? AP?

1,372 posted on 12/13/2009 10:03:46 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Zionist Conspirator; FreeReign
Perhaps ZC meant using the word "reason" as an antonym for "science faith" is in error?
1,380 posted on 12/13/2009 10:13:14 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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