Just wondering like ...
Answers on a postcard please :-)
2007-01-16 23:18:16 · 28 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
j9: maybe you should learn to read questions properly? The question you referring to doesn't mention the pope. Unless he is the 60year-old in disguise??
But it was that question that led me to asking this question though ;-)
2007-01-16 23:31:14 · update #1
Peace!
As far back as Vatican II, which was convened in the 1960s, the Catholic Church had this to say about Science and Religion. Belief in God, who is Wisdom, cannot contradict the discovery of wisdom in the findings of Science. - Universal Catechism of the Catholic Church, Art. 159
As far as the evolution theory is concerned, the Catholic Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him.
2007-01-16 23:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I expect that the Pope is aware his Church has been trying to work out God for the past two thousand years and has written a great deal on the subject. To suggest that the world and everything was not created at tea time in 4004 BC as the Rev who-ever calculated is not going against the revealed truth of God but revising a fallible Human opinion on the subject.
As long as everyone accepts the ultimate authorship of God, the central role of Christ (existence of immortal souls and afterlife with judgement etc) he probably feels they can philosophise, or think about dinosaurs all they want.
It's worth noting that though he is (my opinion) an honest man, his job as the top guy involves passing on the thinking of the Church's scholars on esoteric matters not necessarily his own.
2007-01-17 07:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by mince42 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.
The religious truth is that God created everything and declared all was good.
The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.
As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-18 01:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL believe it or not almost all Christians believe in Dinosaurs.. The bible even describes them.. In Job.. The Leviathon... We just dont hold to carbon dating.. Did you know that carbon does not break down steadily?? heat and the atmosphere around it greatly affect how fast it breaks down. In fact there have been repeated tests where they took live clams and had them carbon dated and the results came back that they were over ten thousand years old.... I got to do a few in biology in college.. Try actually doing one, you might find it interesting what happens to be a lot older than you expected!
2007-01-17 07:27:17 · answer #4 · answered by caleb d 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He could very well, he believes in a book writen by people that believed the world was flat.
Having a great time here in the great white north, everything is covered in white snow & no one can see anything, their all snow blind. It's nice having an edge on everyone. wish you were here.
2007-01-17 07:29:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't find any postcards. Yeah - why not? I'd like to think he has a small collection of plastic dinosaurs on the windowsill in the vatican toilet.
2007-01-17 07:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by Misha-non-penguin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, he can see one all right in the mirror.
I was brought up a Catholic but I have converted to Evangelism when that bloke was elected pope. He's a right fossil.
2007-01-17 08:32:52 · answer #7 · answered by Rainbow 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the pope thought that Dinosaurs boarded the Noah Ark
2007-01-17 07:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Green Lantern 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Of coarse he does... who doesn't!!!!!!!!! It's a scientifically proven fact, and there's no question about it! The Holy Father is an extremely well educated man of science, and faith!
2007-01-17 07:43:30 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin M 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. He is a very intelligent man. Do not confuse Catholics with fundies.
2007-01-17 07:24:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋