RE: Vatican Admits: Life Evolved On Earth
April 1, 2011 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm by Deus non est.)
(April 1, 2011 at 4:19 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: No Deus, no. First off Garbriel Funes was not speaking on behalf of the entire Vatican (that's what dope pope is for) when he was commenting on astrobiology.The Pope will never comment on astrobiology because he knows nothing on the subject. When Father Funes stated that life could have evolved on other planets as we know on Earth it is an admission that life can evolve as we know it evolved on Earth. Father Funes is well aware that life evolved on Earth when he's trying to draw a parallel to prove his statement.
Secondly, neither was he accepting the factual scientific findings of how life evolved on Earth, he only accepts the potential for life to originate without magic man elsewhere in the universe. He deliberately excludes Earth from the argument to bolster Roman Catholic supernatural beliefs, this fallacious approach that we've all heard a million times before is called special pleading.
Look it up.