(August 15, 2017 at 1:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(August 15, 2017 at 10:23 am)Khemikal Wrote: Then the pope is a bad catholic. Wouldn't be the first time.
No, it doesn't - their position on the matter is official and crystal clear. Vatican 1 infallibly declared that all must confess that everything was created by god out of nothing. Further-
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A catholic must read genesis as a real history, they cannot deny that god created everything, nor can they deny that we all descend from just two, specially created, human beings - adam and eve, whose sin follows us through heredity and provides the very reason for the existence of christ and the church.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - the church emphatically does not accept evolution...they just mouth the words to get science and their own incredulous followers off their nuts. To accept evolutionary biology is to reject the very foundation of the catholic faith, it's official dogma, and it's infallible decrees.
Catholic_Lady just recently said she accepted evolution albeit as one of God's divine schemes of course. I say that still counts.
(August 15, 2017 at 10:39 am)Khemikal Wrote: No, Rik..... plants, animals, and humans (redundant - we're animals) do -not- evolve. Populations evolve - not individual representatives.
You're welcome.
Not Rik, he's a special snow flake.
Yes, Kem is wrong of course. I learned about evolution in catholic school science class, and the past several popes have all approved of it as an acceptable view for Catholics to have. And of course, there's the little detail that the man who first presented the big bang theory was a catholic priest who was also a scientist.
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