Why can't the Pope shut up and just admit the evolution is true?

Question

Why do these mind-controlling Christians continue to waste their time making excuses for their out-dated obsolete cult? Is it because they have something that works and makes money and they want to keep it alive?

Forgot the link.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070411/sc_nm/pope_evolution_dc

Answer 1

the same reason others can't just "shut up" and admit that God exists.....

Answer 2

Everybody should go up and read "Imacatholic2's" answer above mine. VERY well thought out and researched. If all religious people posted stuff like this, all discord and arguments about religion on YA would evaporate.

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To my own answer:

Well, you know, they can't, really. If they did that, they feel that their whole religion would unravel. It's gradually unraveling, anyway.

They should just disband the church and keep the property in Rome and consolidate all their assets and holdings, and real estate and corporations and cash and gold stashed away in little holes under the foundation of St. Peters and all the other billions of dollars worth of swag they've accumulated over the centuries and just buy villas on the ocean and enjoy the fruits of their various labors.

They wouldn't have to wear those goofy robes or funny hats and their Sunday mornings would be free for cocktails and they could invite porn stars over without it becoming a scandal. I don't see what's stopping them. Oh, wait. Yes, the power and the dizzying, addictive control they have over other humans. Yes.

I kinda miss Pope John Paul. He seemed to have a sense that the church needed to move forward and was more of a reasonable guy then this Bennedict guy. Bennedict isn't thinking on his feet. He's just following a traditionalist line.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church said the the theory of evolution was an acceptable choice almost 60 years ago.

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.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

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 experienced 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.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

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.

Answer 4

If you are going to make a statement like that you need to back up what you say. The laws of physics refute evolution. Research in micro biology has refuted evolution. The gaps in the fossil record make that argument implausible to all but the desperate. There is no evidence of evolution, by scientific definition, happening now. Even Darwin rejected evolution before he died.

Just because you don't read all these things in the popular scientific journals doesn't mean the info isn't out there. They have become bastions of evolution but are far from scientific in their approach to the issue. Given the evidence taken objectively, it requires more faith to be an evolutionist than it does to be a creationist.

Answer 5

http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/chapter9.php

Let us suppose that millions of years ago a cell was formed which had acquired everything necessary for life, and that it duly "came to life". The theory of evolution again collapses at this point. For even if this cell had existed for a while, it would eventually have died and after its death, nothing would have remained, and everything would have reverted to where it had started. This is because this first living cell, lacking any genetic information, would not have been able to reproduce and start a new generation. Life would have ended with its death.

Answer 6

If and when he does then what happens? If we believe in evolution, suddenly the world is a better place?

Btw, research grants for scientists spending years on end trying figure out if they know anything or not come out of my tax dollars and yours. Does that make you feel better? Geologists get some of the biggest grants to try and figure out when North America was first populated, and if they ever figure it out, then what happens?

Answer 7

What's wrong with you? The Catholic Churc is about the only one who doesn't deny evolution.

The Church does not have an official position on whether the stars, nebulae, and planets we see today were created at that time or whether they developed over time (for example, in the aftermath of the Big Bang that modern cosmologists discuss). However, the Church would maintain that, if the stars and planets did develop over time, this still ultimately must be attributed to God and his plan, for Scripture records: "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host [stars, nebulae, planets] by the breath of his mouth" (Ps. 33:6).

Concerning biological evolution, the 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.

Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. Pope Pius XII declared that "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 . . . 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—[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36). So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.

While the Church permits belief in either special creation or developmental creation on certain questions, it in no circumstances permits belief in atheistic evolution.

Answer 8

The pope and alot of christians need to realise alot of things can't be tested in a lab. You can't test an asteroid crashing into a planet in a lab, but evidence shows it does happen.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

From the article "mutations over hundreds of thousands of years cannot be proved in a laboratory." What a hoot! What happened to his science advisors?

Answer 11

Benedict is hitting back hard at secularism. His comments don't make much sense to me and he misunderstands the relation between Evolution and atheism.