God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope

Yahoo News ^ | January 6, 2011 | Philip Pullella

[Varda]

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.

[topcat54]

Does the pope believe there was an historical Adam created from the dust of the earth -- and Eve from his rib -- or is that now considered fiction and superseded by evolutionary theory?

How much of Genesis do we jettison in our embrace of modernism?

[topcat54]

"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary."

Rather we are the divine product of evolution. Is that it?

[starlifter]

You would have to ask the pope what he believes.

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.

[Texas Eagle]

I've always believed in The Big Bang.

I believe God spoke and BANG!, it happened.

[topcat54]

At one point God placed a soul in man. Before the soul don't particularly care what he/it was.

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 don’t happen in an evolutionary model.

[starlifter]

Oh for heaven's sake...calm down.

[BigEdLB]

Not a Catholic, but two thumbs up for the Pope...

[ex-snook]

"At one point God placed a soul in man."

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??

[jimt]

Of course a biblical “day” is not a “calendar” day.

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.