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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 6, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Good.
Creationism is and was always an assinine concept and it shouldnt' have lasted as long as it has. Although it's a lost hope that it'll disappear completely, it's at least a baby step in the right direction for one of the many religions of the world.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 6, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Like that will stop creationists from spreading their bullshit.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 2:59 pm
That people should believe something because one authority figure said so rather than because they weighed the evidence for themselves seems to me a rather hollow victory.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 3:22 pm
True...but it is the entire basis of religion.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Creationism being completely rejected (finally) by the Catholic Church is a great thing for my country, France. Catholics are the overwhelming majority of theists over there, which means that the only figure of authority is the Pope. Him rejecting Creationism makes French Creationists without any backup from their religious institutions. This is pretty great.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Rwandrall Wrote:Creationism being completely rejected (finally) by the Catholic Church is a great thing for my country, France. Catholics are the overwhelming majority of theists over there, which means that the only figure of authority is the Pope. Him rejecting Creationism makes French Creationists without any backup from their religious institutions. This is pretty great.
Most creationists are of the evangelical protestant persuasion, and so I doubt that they give any weight to anything the Pope says.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 6:27 pm
American evangelical Protestants must be proud now then even the catholic church stands as a beacon of rational enlightenment by comparison.
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RE: God was behind Big Bang, pope says
January 8, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Don't give the katholicks that much credit.
They're just shoehorning their fucking god in to the beginning of the process...with no evidence at all that there is any such god.
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