The narrowminded, reactionary, fundamentalist Vatican (to host Conference on Biological Evolution)

Insight Scoop ^ | February 10, 2009 | Carl Olson

[NYer]

Ping!

[theFIRMbss]

[Zionist Conspirator]

No comment. Except thank you, L-rd, for delivering me (just in the nick of time, apparently).

[Darwin Fish]

Bump

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

The Earth is immobile. Somebody ring up NASA and other space agencies around the world, to tell them that their work on transfer orbits and launch windows with gravity assist, was erroneous.

[netmilsmom]

That book is from Catholic Apologetics International, which one can compare to Weekly World News.

It’s not from the Vatican, silly.

[netmilsmom]

Please see post 7.

[Pyro7480]

Heh, like evolution rises to the level as the dogma of the Trinity (as much as some would like to make it).

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don't recall the Vatican hosting any trinitarian conferences lately. And unfortunately, a belief in at least the possibility of evolution is pretty much a characteristic of post-Darwin Catholicism.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there aren't more Catholics who doubt the trinity than doubt Darwin.

[Petronski]

Anti-Catholic fetishists never rest.

[Pyro7480]

I don't recall the Vatican hosting any trinitarian conferences lately.

Because that was resolved eons again.

Also, when you have a lot of people in the post-Christian UK still doubting Darwin, I think you hypothesis doesn't stand a chance.

[Zionist Conspirator]

That book is from Catholic Apologetics International, which one can compare to Weekly World News.

Unfortunately.

It’s not from the Vatican, silly.

Unfortunately.

[Gene Eric]

>> The Earth is immobile.

Who can prove the universe does not center around you? Where does the center of the ‘universe’ exist? And is mass the defining attribute of relative location in infinite context?

I bet we humans are merely playing with toy blocks of Nature - something to keep the curious lifeform busy in fantasy and adventure for its fleeting existence on Earth.

[Pyro7480]

So you’re equating geocentrism with Darwinism?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Also, when you have a lot of people in the post-Christian UK still doubting Darwin, I think you hypothesis doesn't stand a chance.

Sometimes secular people are less dogmatic than religions trying to prove to the world that they aren't old fogies (and certainly not to be confused with Those Awful People).

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is perhaps the most dogmatic organization of Darwinists in the world.

[Pyro7480]

Sigh....

[Zionist Conspirator]

So you’re equating geocentrism with Darwinism?

No, not precisely, since 1)Geocentrism isn't so much based on the Bible as on the way things look to people on earth (Creationism, on the other hand, has no source but the Bible), and 2)I acknowledge that cosmology, the way the universe is actually structured, is within the purview of science (which cosmogony plainly is not).

However . . . I notice that there are still people who make the case for geocentrism and that a Catholic spokesman some time back (name and context not precisely recalled) refused to say that geocentrism is false when asked point blank several times.

It's mainly that I'd love to see scientism given a dose of humility. And also that Galileo, the great "martyr for the truth" (for people who reject all concept of meaning and therefore have no business honoring martyrs or truth at all) was in fact an actual heretic--not with regard to "heliocentrism," but with regard to something else (he had a philosophy of truth that logically extended would deny transubstantiation or something like that). If I find the article online I'll send you the URL.

[Pyro7480]

You are right about Galileo.

[Zionist Conspirator]

What are you sighing about? On the war against utter meaninglessness (whose advocates most incoherently crusade for with such moral fervor) the Catholic Church is MIA. And Catholics wonder where we got to abortion and euthenasia! It all started with Darwin. And so long as the Catholic Church refuses to say so, so long will it be ineffective in promoting life and sanity.

I really miss wideawake. He knew how outnumbered he was in "his" church. Shoot, he's probably been excommunicated by now.