Category: So Close and Yet So Far
Catholic Primate Clings to Evolution
Surprisingly, on October 24, 1996, Pope John Paul II endorsed evolution as “more than just a theory” and thereby biblical fundamentalism as so-called scientific creationism was dealt yet another blow to its vacuous claims about the origin of this universe and the appearance of life-forms on the Earth. Biblical creationists continue to ignore the overwhelming …
The Pope, Evolution, and the Soul
John Paul II has recently admitted that biological evolution is for real. This is no news: Pius XII had admitted it in 1953. But he had warned that evolution, far from happening spontaneously (naturally), is guided from above. (How did he find out?) If evolution had been steered at a distance by God, then natural …