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To: Remedy
Nice try, John Paul II, never, ever "eaffirmed the commitment of the Catholic Church to evolution in 1996"....

I get real sick and tired of people claiming that, when in fact it never happened.
82 posted on 04/29/2003 1:34:00 PM PDT by RomanCatholicProlifer
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To: RomanCatholicProlifer
The pope drew a line between 1) legitimate scientific theories based upon empirical evidence, which the Church will honor, and 2) overly ambitious manifestations of materialist philosophy, which contradict truths which are fundamental to the Church's magisterium." The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism. By Phillip E. Johnson. InterVarsity Press. 220 pp.

I discuss the recent statement of Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Chapter 6 of my latest book, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds. I greatly admire the Pope, who on this subject as well as others is fighting a courageous battle against the forces of modernism inside and outside the Church. The papal statement did say that materialism is unacceptable when it extends to the human spirit, but it neglected to say that mainstream science insists upon a fully materialistic theory of evolution, one which resolutely keeps that divine foot outside the door. Any deficiencies in the statement are probably attributable to the vigorous lobbying of a clique of academics that dominates the "Religion and Science" field, and that wants to "save" religion by bringing it into conformity with evolutionary naturalism. Phillip E. Johnson

119 posted on 04/29/2003 4:18:50 PM PDT by Remedy
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