The first and still the best idea mankind has been enlightened with – God.
Pope Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church’s image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
Galileo was rehabilitated and the Church now also accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world.
But it objects to using evolution to back an atheist philosophy that denies God’s existence or any divine role in creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.
“Both science and philosophy are aware that nothing comes from nothing. According to the law of causality, something must have caused the Bang. If there was a beginning, there was a Beginner.”
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The first and still the best idea mankind has been enlightened with – God.
Pope Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church’s image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
Galileo was rehabilitated and the Church now also accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world.
But it objects to using evolution to back an atheist philosophy that denies God’s existence or any divine role in creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.
“Both science and philosophy are aware that nothing comes from nothing. According to the law of causality, something must have caused the Bang. If there was a beginning, there was a Beginner.”
Nothing comes from nothing – and sometimes something comes from nothing – get over it!
The Almighty may need a new brand name. Been Done!