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Evolution: What the Pope Said
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| jan 3, 2003
| James Akin
Posted on 01/03/2003 2:28:53 AM PST by The Raven
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His point was that evolution was now accepted by a wide range of scientific disciplines doing independent research." I didn't know this!!!
Christianity had a very hard time dismissing that the solar system revolved around the earth.
There are many "stories" in the Bible....which Christians have dismissed as such. Looks like the story 'Adam and Eve' may join the ranks of a "story."
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01/03/2003 2:28:53 AM PST
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The Raven
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01/03/2003 2:44:32 AM PST
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The Raven
To: RadioAstronomer; Scully; Piltdown_Woman; LogicWings; Physicist; Doctor Stochastic; BMCDA; ...
ping
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01/03/2003 2:48:57 AM PST
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The Raven
To: The Raven
Christianity had a very hard time dismissing that the solar system revolved around the earth. You need to do some more research. Galileo's theory of heliocentrism as professed in Siderius Nuncius had widespread support within the Church. Galileo was condemned by the universities, which supported geocentrism, for not being able to prove his theory. What got him into trouble with the Church was his arrogance, his failure to live up to the agreement he made with Pope Urban VIII and his inability to prove his claim. Johannes Kepler was teaching and writing about heliocentrism at the same time that Galileo was having his problems. Kepler was able to prove his theory, Galileo wasn't.
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
>>You need to do some more research
OK....I did some fast surfing and found this
Greek natural philosophy had concluded that the earth was (a) in the middle of the universe and (b) that it was composed of different material than the rest of the universe. Aquinas agreed completely, but for very different reasons. Aquinas concluded that when God made the universe, it was absolutely perfect in every respect. His greatest achievement man He placed in the center, like a jewel in a crown because He was so proud of it. But man screwed up. Because of the Fall (Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as told in Genesis 2), man sullied or dirtied the earth and everything else he touched. That is why the earth is dirty and heavy now. It used to be perfect like everything else. But everything else all other celestial bodies remain pristine, untouched by human hands and therefore still perfect as God made them.
Aquinas therefore successfully merged Greek natural philosophy and Christian theology. The only problem was that both are based on an incorrect premise they are wrong. And once scientific discoveries began showing that the earth was NOT in the middle, the Church panicked because they had so carefully intertwined their theological doctrine with that cosmological model that it was like a giant JENGA game if you took that one piece out, the entire construction would come crashing down. Therefore, they made it heresy (a crime against the teachings of the church) to say that the sun was in the middle of the solar system, and not the earth. Eventually, of course, scientific discoveries would prove the earlier theory wrong, but not without casualties.
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01/03/2003 3:19:22 AM PST
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The Raven
To: The Raven
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Instead of relying on only one source, broaden your scope and start here.
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
You picked Galileo's time frame - not me.
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01/03/2003 3:32:12 AM PST
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The Raven
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An oldie but a goodie ping.
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To: The Raven
Microscopes are doing to Darwin what the telescope did to Ptolemy. What exactly did 'evolution' mean to the Pope? Unguided chance mutation. Not Likely!
To: The Raven
Microscopes are doing to Darwin what the telescope did to Ptolemy. What exactly did 'evolution' mean to the Pope? Unguided chance mutation. Not Likely!
To: The Raven
read later
To: The Raven
Thanks for the ping!
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01/03/2003 7:40:37 AM PST
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Aracelis
To: metacognative
"Microscopes are doing to Darwin what the telescope did to PtolemyMicroscopes were invented a long time before Darwin. Actually the study of DNA via miscroscopes supports evolution strongly.
To: Eternal_Bear
Actually the study of DNA via miscroscopes supports evolution strongly.
Only if you believe in things like 'truth', 'facts' and 'logic'. Creation scientists are above such primitive means.
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01/03/2003 9:03:12 AM PST
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Dimensio
To: The Raven
Christianity had a very hard time dismissing that the solar system revolved around the earth. You made the generalization, not me.
To: The Raven
To me, what the Pope says is inconsequential.
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01/03/2003 9:17:49 AM PST
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stanz
To: Dimensio
Two men become stranded on a remote island. As they explore the island they come upon a sandcastle on the beach. The design of the castle is amazingly intricate.
One man immediately comments, "Amazing what time and the ocean can create".
The other man looks at him incredulously and says, "Obviously there are other people somewhere on this island".
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01/03/2003 9:36:26 AM PST
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bondserv
To: bondserv
Design of a castle can be inferred by comparison to other man-made castles. There is no historical evidence that castles were ever based entirely on a naturally-occuring formation, and even if the men had never seen castles before they could compare its structure to that of other man-made objects and find similarities.
Do you have an example of a known designed structure similar to 'life' or 'the universe' that we can use as a basis of comparison, or are you just hoping that I'm not well-versed enough in logical fallacies to buy into your false analogy?
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01/03/2003 9:44:18 AM PST
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Dimensio
To: Dimensio
*Only if you believe in things like 'truth', 'facts' and 'logic'*
I dunno Dimensio.
There are the "evolutionists" for whom the thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters can write better than Shakespeare. What 'truth', 'facts' and 'logic' is that?
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