Come on... You know it will be soon! Intelligent design is destined to the same trashcan where they threw Geocentrism and other theories. The church has retracted before, they know they have to or they will keep losing adherents!. We are at the verge of inmortality, with increasingly lifespans, afterlife is no longer a prize good enough to gather the masses. Maybe it is in poor countries, but Ratzinger Z seems to have more interest in europe. And in homophobia. The sheeps have changed, an old fashioned shepperd won't change them back, we need a NEW kind of shepperd, new minds need a new christian Church!
2006-10-15 18:42:03 · 16 answers · asked by Diego A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, I'm learning something today... Intalligent design was PWN'D!
Icheeknows: I'm not discussing what is the form of evolution that better describe our environment
Azar: don't mix evolution with abiogenesis the world is bigger when you want it to be
Lauren: You are seriously beating a dead monkey, who happens to be your granpa, and the MODERN mokeys' grampa too!
You wish you could teach Chimps how they are SO going to hell if they don't think like you.
2006-10-15 21:07:10 · update #1
The Vatican accepted evolution almost a hundred years ago. Evolution is taught in all Catholic schools, in the biology and other life sciences classes.
It is fundamentalist Christian fanatics (mostly Southern US) who are so backward and idiotic that they assume that the earth was created in 7 days. Don't listen to them!
2006-10-15 18:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is your theories that belong in the trash can. The Vatican long accepted many different parts of Darwin's work. They simply do not accept that creation happened purely by chance. They believe that God had a hand in the first beginning act. Even "The Big Bang" theory can't explain where the stuff that went "bang" came from.
Once God set the corners, it is reasonable to believe that things evolved or (more likely) devolved. You really should become more educated because on this issue you do not know what you are talking about.
2006-10-15 18:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by robabard 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
News flash, they already have.
Pope Pius XII, a deeply conservative man, directly addressed the issue of evolution in a 1950 encyclical, Humani Generis. The document makes plain the pope’s fervent hope that evolution will prove to be a passing scientific fad, and it attacks those persons who “imprudently and indiscreetly hold that evolution …explains the origin of all things.” Nonetheless, Pius XII states that nothing in Catholic doctrine is contradicted by a theory that suggests one specie might evolve into another—even if that specie is man. The Pope declared:
"The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experiences in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter—for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God."
Evolution, a doctrine that Pius XII only acknowledged as an unfortunate possibility, John Paul accepts forty-six years later “as an effectively proven fact.” (ROA, 82)
2006-10-15 18:45:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Vatican has already accepted the idea of evolution and teaches it in class rooms. along with Creationism. Something along the lines of something needs to be created before it can evolve.
As to them needing a new Christian Church view that is something I would agree with . as they have made a tangled mess out of it by adopting other religions ideas into theirs to try and get other religions to convert to theirs.
2006-10-15 18:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Catholic born and raised, and I have never heard anyone in authority deny evolution; not even in theology classes in graduate school.
As for getting a "new shepherd," you'll have to get a whole new curia first. Remember, the pope is elected by his fellow cardinals. Real, lasting change is going to come from the people themselves, acting like the "People of God" who they are.
2006-10-15 18:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church already does accept evolution, and the big bang...they still say it was god that was the prime mover however
Ratzinger is more likely to withdraw that position as he is more conservative and hardline than was the previous man in a the silly hat.
2006-10-15 19:10:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
ID is not a Catholic invention. The Vatican has publicly stated it does not oppose evolution.
2006-10-15 18:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by lenny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as they quit molesting children, who cares what the Catholic Church does? It's an anachronism and the world would be better off without it at all.
2006-10-15 18:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As much as I don't agree with alot of the RCC's teachings, I can say that Evolution and Creation are completely incomparable.
One sys God did it, the other says He didn't.
2006-10-15 18:48:33 · answer #9 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Vatican has already accepted evolution.
2006-10-15 18:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋