I went to a Catholic boys school.
Catholicism has no problem with evolution, due to some pretty nifty thinking:
The Old Testament does not say how long is each day of creation. For all we know , it could be aeons., so evolution does not contradict dogma and may be accepted.
OF course Catholics are anti science as any Christian sect; Scientific claims are accepted by the Catholic church IF AND ONLY IF such claims do not contradict dogma.
Catholics are also more pragmatic: The institution of the church is aware of the absurdity of insisting the Old Testament is literally true; EG that all human came directly from 2 people. That the Towery of Babel is literally true..OR that it took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan.
Some of the protestant sects reject evolution because they believe the Bible, Old and New Testament, are the inerrant word of God. Yet another case of cognitive dissonance.Such people are simply ignorant, or choose not to consider the simple fact of how books were reproduced until the invention of the printing press---by HAND.
IT is not well known that scribes could be illiterate, IE they could copy, but not read or understand.with scribes who could read and write, it was common for bits to be omitted, or bits to be added. This is not new information, scholars have been aware of the practice for centuries, and tried their best to find original texts.this an often be simply educated guesswork.
One of my favourites is literalists will insist the commandment reads "Thou Shalt Not Kill". It does not. The translation from Hebrew says "Thou shalt commit no murder" .Critically important in a society in which many of the 613 commandments (not just 10) called for capital punishment, and where war was common.So far, I've never come across a single literalist who reads ancient Hebrew (Old Testament) or Greek (New Testament)
Catholicism has no problem with evolution, due to some pretty nifty thinking:
The Old Testament does not say how long is each day of creation. For all we know , it could be aeons., so evolution does not contradict dogma and may be accepted.
OF course Catholics are anti science as any Christian sect; Scientific claims are accepted by the Catholic church IF AND ONLY IF such claims do not contradict dogma.
Catholics are also more pragmatic: The institution of the church is aware of the absurdity of insisting the Old Testament is literally true; EG that all human came directly from 2 people. That the Towery of Babel is literally true..OR that it took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan.
Some of the protestant sects reject evolution because they believe the Bible, Old and New Testament, are the inerrant word of God. Yet another case of cognitive dissonance.Such people are simply ignorant, or choose not to consider the simple fact of how books were reproduced until the invention of the printing press---by HAND.
IT is not well known that scribes could be illiterate, IE they could copy, but not read or understand.with scribes who could read and write, it was common for bits to be omitted, or bits to be added. This is not new information, scholars have been aware of the practice for centuries, and tried their best to find original texts.this an often be simply educated guesswork.
One of my favourites is literalists will insist the commandment reads "Thou Shalt Not Kill". It does not. The translation from Hebrew says "Thou shalt commit no murder" .Critically important in a society in which many of the 613 commandments (not just 10) called for capital punishment, and where war was common.So far, I've never come across a single literalist who reads ancient Hebrew (Old Testament) or Greek (New Testament)
