Posted on 01/06/2011 6:32:35 AM PST by starlifter
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) God's mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.
"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.
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Agree. There is a prime mover that sets all in motion. The causal chain in Catholic theology starts with the First cause. Scientific theories (including the Primordial Soup idea) confine themselves to secondary causes and effects. Once they get outside that they aren’t science anymore.
How much of Genesis do we jettison in our embrace of modernism?
Rather we are the divine product of evolution. Is that it?
Personally I find evolution and creation consistent, as evolution is a manifestation of the Lord's creation. At one point God placed a soul in man. Before the soul don't particularly care what he/it was.
But I've always had a hankering for bananas and picking head lice from my friends.
I believe God spoke and BANG!, it happened.
Are you suggesting we can disregard the details of the process as given to us in Holy Writ? Can we trust Scripture that says, For Adam was formed first, then Eve? Perhaps then Jesus, the last Adam, was not really born of a virgin or raised from the dead. Those things dont happen in an evolutionary model.
Not a Catholic, but two thumbs up for the Pope...
I'll go with that. It's what the 'image and likeness' seems to say. But Adam sinned and sin is not part of God's image and likeness. So did Adam have a soul when he was created? did Eve? Angels made man, perhaps on trial. Someday we'll know??
Neither is a Harry Reid "day". It lasts until he can change the rules so he can ramrod legislation on a bare majority.
It's rumored Mr. Smith (as in Goes To Washington) was shot by Harry Reid in the cloakroom.
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