I wonder if he will have a notable impact. Passing up the personal limo for a bus ride and offering to pay a hotel bill are nice gestures, but they seem mostly symbolic. Will he have a plan whereby the Church divests itself of a chunk of its wealth to invest in programs to aid the poor, or will it be mostly telling people what to do while waiting for the staff to finish polishing the gold on his fancy chair?
After pointing this out, he hastened to add that the chalice from the palace held the brew that is true.
Quote:"Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation," the pope said.
After pointing this out, he hastened to add that the chalice from the palace held the brew that is true.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
