conclusion - Francis is not a protestant. There’s nothing in these quotes that’s not orthodox or hasn’t been stated by Popes in the last 60 years.
That’s good. Hopefully he will see that science backs up scripture on the moral issues of our day.
So Popes have been saying the Big Bang is how the world started for sixty years?
Even worse than I thought.
Problem is, evolution teaches eons of suffering and death before man, a recent arrival, ever showed up. The Bible says there was no death until man brought it about, and man was created at the beginning (confirmed twice by Jesus in the NT).
Neither backs up the other; in fact, they are completely contradictory.