Then let me repeat; Many, including major religious authorities do not hold that evolution is incompatible with Christianity and does not undermine Church authority. To take your argument to its conclusion would be to assert that the Catholic Church's acceptance of Theistic Evolution is the endorsement of a different religion. That is absurd.
lol, historically The Catholic church has never had a problem absorbing other religions. It’s called syncretism. They’ve even made overtures to Islam, finding a common link in Mary.
Then let me repeat; many, who are not major religious authorities, but pretend to speak authoritatively for Science, do believe that evolution not only undermines the authority of the Catholic Church, but all of Christianity and, more than that, proves that no god exists. All this in gross defiance of the most basic tenets of the very Science they pretend to uphold.
It’s true that Pope Benedict XVI has declared Evolution not to be incompatible with Christianity and that it does not undermine Church authority. He has gone on to observe that evolution does not answer the great central philosophical question: “Where does everything come from?” That’s a question that Darwinian thought cannot answer (by its own definition), but it goes to the very core of Creationism, a fundamental tenet of Judeo-Christian tradition. Pope Benedict is not the problem. Nor are other Judeo-Christian ‘authorities’ the problem, not to mention everyday Jews and Christians (including “Fundies”). It’s those who believe Science is a philosophical system, indeed a veritable religion, and not the superior fact-finding methodology it is, who are the problem. Go straighten them out.
”To take your argument to its conclusion would be to assert that the Catholic Church's acceptance of Theistic Evolution is the endorsement of a different religion. That is absurd.”
That you have to take what I say and recast it to the point that you’ve turned it on its head is what’s absurd. Go back to DC and tell ‘em what you’re doing ain’t working.