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God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
Yahoo News ^ | January 6, 2011 | Philip Pullella

Posted on 01/06/2011 6:32:35 AM PST by starlifter

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To: oh8eleven

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.


21 posted on 01/06/2011 8:48:06 AM PST by Varda
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To: starlifter
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an historical Adam created from the dust of the earth -- and Eve from his rib -- or is that now considered fiction and superseded by evolutionary theory?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?

22 posted on 01/06/2011 10:44:58 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
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To: Heartlander
"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?

23 posted on 01/06/2011 10:49:04 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
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To: topcat54
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.

24 posted on 01/06/2011 10:55:29 AM PST by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: starlifter
I've always believed in The Big Bang.

I believe God spoke and BANG!, it happened.

25 posted on 01/06/2011 10:56:49 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: starlifter
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.

26 posted on 01/06/2011 11:11:52 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
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To: topcat54
Oh for heaven's sake...calm down.
27 posted on 01/06/2011 11:39:09 AM PST by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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Not a Catholic, but two thumbs up for the Pope...


28 posted on 01/06/2011 11:39:16 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: starlifter
"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??

29 posted on 01/06/2011 11:39:51 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: mc5cents
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.

30 posted on 01/06/2011 1:10:24 PM PST by jimt
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