Posted on 02/10/2009 1:03:46 PM PST by NYer
Yet how well known is this? Instead the Vatican is going to erect a statue to the little mamzer.
Do you have any idea why people who logically should have no moral code and no purpose in life are such fanatical crusaders for "truth?" If you ever get one please share it with me. Pure bone meanness is all I can come up with.
What a pathetic slur.
I would not place it at Darwin, however. The crisis began before the Reformation with the William of Occam.
You have a talent for hyperbole. If he's gone, I'm gone.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have insulted you. And I miss widey terribly.
I would not place it at Darwin, however. The crisis began before the Reformation with the William of Occam.
Actually it began even before that, but probably the less said about that on this forum the better.
It wasn’t an insult, and I didn’t take it as one.
Catholic is a self defining term. Those who believe in the teachings of the Church are Catholic. Those who do not accept the teachings of the Church, regardless of that they call themselves, are not Catholic. Your bitterness toward the Church speaks greatly about you as a person. By the way, what side of that whole Copernicus thing did you come down on?
INTREP
“from the perspective of Christian theology, biological evolution and creation are by no means mutually exclusive. ... None of the evolutionary mechanisms opposes the affirmation that God wanted - in other words, created - man. Neither is this opposed by the casual nature of the many events that happened during the slow development of life, as long as the recourse to chance remains a simple scientific reading of phenomena”.
Three cheers for Catholicism in general and this Pope in particular.
I look forward to reading about this conference. I’m currently reading one of my Christmas presents, a book called “Creation and Evolution” a collection of lectures and question and answer sessions from one of Pope Benedict’s academic get togethers at Castle Gandolfo.
Pope Benedict (I hope) is moving to produce a more detailed and substantial theology of creation.
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