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To: Wallace T.
"Evolution and belief in God are not mutually exclusive. Two Popes generally considered conservative (Pius XII in 1950 and John Paul II in 2001) stated that the theory of evolution was not in itself incompatible with Catholicism.

Funny how when folks want to say that Darwin and Christianity are compatible, they always they always use the ad hominum and point to someone of note who says it is so.

....But no one ever attempts to construct the argument itself .

If there is a Creator, then He Creates. If we are Endowed by Him, then it is not the result of Darwinian process, which, by definition, is impersonal and without intention. Either Intelligence is seriously involved or Intelligence is not involved. Both at the same time constitutes nonsense.

552 posted on 08/24/2006 9:04:52 AM PDT by cookcounty (Impeach President Ah-be-duh-mahdijihad now!)
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To: cookcounty
My argument was that Darwin's theory of evolution is not incompatible with theism. It is conceivable that a transcendent Supreme Being could have used evolution as His means of creating and developing life forms. There is a problem between this theory and evangelical or fundamentalist Christianity. The doctrine of inerrancy requires God directly creating the universe and life ex nihilo, as the Genesis narrative describes, not through an indirect process taking billions of years.
557 posted on 08/24/2006 9:22:51 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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