RE: Theists: What is your stance on evolution?
November 18, 2021 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2021 at 10:44 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 18, 2021 at 10:18 am)T.J. Wrote: I find it interesting that even the Catholic Church accepts Evolution as a fact, but of course they put God at the front of it as being the cause for everything and the events of evolution just being the explanation even though this greatly contradicts their bible. But at least they're willing to acknowledge evolution to an extent. That's progress right?
Catholic Church has neither officially affirmed nor denied the biological evolution, although it did reject the evolution of humans in Pope Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical “Humani Generis.”
It seems today that the Pope lets Catholics personally choose whether they will accept it or not, so that is why there are still many Catholics, including those in the clergy, that don't accept evolution.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
