[wagglebee]

As an example of a man of faith, a Biblical scholar par excellence, who accepts the scientific theory of evolution - that man descended from non human living forms

Please provide a VERIFIABLE QUOTE where ANY POPE has made this statement.

Or are you just making it up?

[trisham]

This might be interesting.

[allmendream]

Pope Pius XII introduced the phrase and concept of the acceptability of belief that humans came from “pre existing and living matter”, Pope John Paul expounded upon this by saying ....

“The convergence, neither sought nor provoked, of results of studies undertaken independently from each other in itself constitutes a significant argument in favor of the theory [of evolution].”

“if the origin of the human body is sought in living matter which existed before it, the spiritual soul is directly created by God”

Do you really not know?!?!!?

You have been here for years arguing this and you are THIS blissfully unaware?

It takes all kinds I suppose.

[allmendream]

Pope Benedict XVI said....

while there is much scientific proof to support evolution, the theory could not exclude a role by God.

“They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other,” the Pope said. “This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”