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Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 6:16 pm
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/in...1117484124
Quote:THE Church of England will make an official apology to naturalist Charles Darwin for criticising his famous theory of evolution
Coming 126 years after his death, the church's apology will focus on how wrong it was for senior bishops in the past to misunderstand and attack Darwin's theory about man being descended from apes.
Senior church officials will post the apology in the form of an article written by the Reverend Dr Malcolm Brown on the church's website tomorrow.
"Charles Darwin, 200 years from your birth (in 1809), the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still,'' the article says, according to extracts printed by The Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Now if only someone will tell the fundie shitheads we'll be all set!
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Ha good luck with that, no amount of proof, data or whatever will change that. We have educated reasonable Christians. You have tin can shooting, shit kicking hicks. Our top bishop has a Phd and speaks about 5 languages, he learnt Russian so he could read Dostoyevsky. You got Jerry 'Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.' Falwell.
Kinda makes me proud of our nutters.
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Haha, this is highly amusing... They just sound like a bunch of twats... Oh wait, they already did? My bad.
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
Quote:Coming 126 years after his death, the church's apology will focus on how wrong it was for senior bishops in the past to misunderstand and attack Darwin's theory about man being descended from apes.
Ermmm... Darwin's theory wasn't about man being descended from apes!
(It was about man and apes both descending from common ancestors, a 'proto man/ape').
So those 'misunderstandings' and attacks were classic cases of barking up the wrong tree.
Those 'senior bishops' demonstrated, time and again, that comprehensive reading wasn't their strong suit. 
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Any insight from our UK theists on this matter?
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I'm waiting for our resident shitheads to denounce the CofE as "not true xtians."
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
First the RCC and now CoE...they're running out of options. Soon it will be people huddling in their basements chanting to the walls. Scratch that, apparently it already is.
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 31, 2011 at 1:22 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2011 at 1:23 am by Justtristo.)
(October 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm)Rhythm Wrote: First the RCC and now CoE...they're running out of options. Soon it will be people huddling in their basements chanting to the walls. Scratch that, apparently it already is.
As I see a lot of the churches (even some evangelical ones) will come to accept evolution as a fact. However I believe going to remain a core of die hard churches who will never accept evolution or the universe actually being 2,280,000 times older than what they believe it is.
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 31, 2011 at 8:12 am
(October 31, 2011 at 1:22 am)Justtristo Wrote: As I see a lot of the churches (even some evangelical ones) will come to accept evolution as a fact. However I believe going to remain a core of die hard churches who will never accept evolution or the universe actually being 2,280,000 times older than what they believe it is.
But if they did accept evolution as fact we'd have no more entertainment 
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RE: Better Late Than Never
October 31, 2011 at 12:17 pm
(October 30, 2011 at 6:51 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: Ermmm... Darwin's theory wasn't about man being descended from apes!
(It was about man and apes both descending from common ancestors, a 'proto man/ape').
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-ov4KtR2c
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