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From: newt182
Subject: Pope declares evolution and Big Bang real
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The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

The Catholic Church has long had a reputation for being anti-science most famously when Galileo faced the inquisition and was forced to retract his heretic theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

But Pope Franciss comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was more than a hypothesis and effectively proven fact.

Yet more recently, Benedict XVI and his close advisors have apparently endorsed the idea that intelligent design underpins evolution the idea that natural selection on its own is insufficient to explain the complexity of the world. In 2005, his close associate Cardinal Schoenborn wrote an article saying evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense an unguided, unplanned process is not.
29.10.14 - 07:36pm
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