Catholic Church believes in evolution
While not endearing themselves to people with the sex abuse scandals and general hypocrisy of the church, at least they are honest in their appraisal of evolution.
Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of the Vatican Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul's 1996 statement that evolution was "more than just a hypothesis...A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false...evolution has proof”
posted on The Human Stain
While not endearing themselves to people with the sex abuse scandals and general hypocrisy of the church, at least they are honest in their appraisal of evolution.
Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of the Vatican Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul's 1996 statement that evolution was "more than just a hypothesis...A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false...evolution has proof”
posted on The Human Stain
posted by James Roberts at
11/03/2005 08:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
It's refreshing to hear him say that people with religious beliefs should listen to what science has to say, in order to avoid becoming fundamentalist. If only our government and voters in this country would listen. I disagree, however, with his comment that people of science should in turn remain open to the teachings and lessons of religion, using as an example the atom bomb and advances in the field of cloning. That is where he loses me.
Science and religion have noting to do with each other. If science had paid more heed to religion in the past, many important advances would not have been made, and indeed religion has likely kept us back. That's not to say that science hasn't done horrible things for us (such as the atom bomb), but decency and compassion for others does not require religion. Indeed, religion has been the root of some of the most despicable events in the past, and present.
Religion is an organized, dictated belief system, relied upon by people who can't or don't want to accept or think about the realities of life, used by many to maintain power over the masses to control their thinking. It is nothing more, and the only thing it has to teach us is about the dangers of not thinking for ourselves and not opening our eyes.
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