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To: FreeReign

I am questioning the use of science to ‘disprove’ the Bible.

IF you allow for scince to say that evolution is the ‘way God Created man’, then I say you should sleep easy with the idea that scince disproves the Risen Saviour. One can not have it both ways.


2,205 posted on 12/14/2009 10:53:22 AM PST by RoadGumby (God did not evolve mankind from pond scum, but it might be easy to think that about liberals)
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To: RoadGumby
"One can not have it both ways."

Now, more reflective spirits have long been aware that there is no either-or here. We cannot say: creation or evolution, inasmuch as these two things respond to two different realities. The story of the dust of the earth and the breath of God, which we just heard, does not in fact explain how human persons come to be but rather what they are. It explains their inmost origin and casts light on the project that they are. And, vice versa, the theory of evolution seeks to understand and describe biological developments. But in so doing it cannot explain where the "project" of human persons comes from, nor their inner origin, nor their particular nature. To that extent we are faced here with two complementary -- rather than mutually exclusive -- realities.

- Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

2,208 posted on 12/14/2009 11:04:02 AM PST by Natural Law
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