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Yvon Thivierge
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posted 15 July 2005 02:43 PM      Profile for Yvon Thivierge     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I remember quite well JPII's 1996 declaration about evolutionism and the inerrancy of the Bible.
I was relieved to notice he was for once being progressive on both counts: you musn't interpret the Sacred Scripture literally thus not believe in creationism only but also in evolution.

Now, as in so many areas, the RC Church wants to pull back to the status quo ante, meaning the situation as it was before the groundbreaking Vatican II council.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/national/13pope.html?


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Albion1
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posted 21 July 2005 04:41 PM      Profile for Albion1     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wonder if the pope said that the Earth was flat. Would they ban the teaching of a 'round earth theory'?

If the pope said that people who sail on the oceans are in danger of getting eaten by sea-monsters and falling off the Earth would the church teach that anyone who says otherwise is to be ex-communicated?


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posted 21 July 2005 04:48 PM      Profile for retread     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I couldn't get the NY Times article, but so far the RC Church has just been saying that God started the whole process ... a safe position since physics has nothing to say about what happened before the big bang, or in general, what exists outside of known space-time (which if you believe Super String theory is at about 12 dimensions, most of which are infinitesmial). Are they backtracking on that, or just reiterating their position that God wrote the script that the show is following?
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M. Spector
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posted 22 July 2005 10:38 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
from July 23 New Scientist:
THREE prominent US scientists have asked the new pope, Benedict XVI, to clarify the Roman Catholic church's views on evolution, and to reject a piece in The New York Times last week by Austrian cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a close associate of Benedict, which said that the church does not accept "neo-Darwinian dogma".

A 1996 statement by the late Pope John Paul II seemed finally to mark the church's acceptance of evolution. But while common ancestry for life "might be true", Schönborn wrote, "an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection is not". Denial of the "overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science", he added. Most biologists would question that such evidence exists.



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