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Retrotrek
05-20-2003, 05:06 PM
I just read an article that actually states that, in some circumstances, Catholics can and do believe that species evolve.

The thin hair line between is the difference between evolution and evolutionism. The author stated that evolution is the recognition that things evolve, change slightly over long periods of time. This is an exceptable belief for those Catholics that can't accept that God made things just as they are now.

Evolutionism is the idea that everything can be explained through scientific means and evolved from something else, without any sort of god helping.
Imperium
05-31-2003, 05:49 PM
So what's your point? That evolution means that God created things but they still managed to adapt over time and evolutionism is purely scientific?

Bah, the author is a nut case, there is no such thing as "evolutionism." Sounds like one of those religious crackpot name lables like "evolutionist."
Smith
05-31-2003, 05:54 PM
What those zealots fail to comprehend is that the word secular has little to no relevance to a secular person.
Cosmic Average
06-04-2003, 08:33 AM
The writer of that book sounds like a fucking ignorant dumbass. :D
Retrotrek
06-04-2003, 04:35 PM
Originally posted by Cosmic Average
The writer of that book sounds like a fucking ignorant dumbass. :D

Well, then, you've got something in common with him! ;)
Cosmic Average
06-04-2003, 04:59 PM
What, that I'm a writer? No, I'm not. Sorry to disappoint you. :)
Soma
06-06-2003, 01:57 PM
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Cosmic Average
06-07-2003, 11:41 AM
?!
Ancalagon
06-09-2003, 07:01 AM
umm.... Retrotrek have you not read Humani Generis?
Ancalagon
06-09-2003, 07:04 AM
Humani Generis (Pius XII)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

Message ON EVOLUTION to the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences (John Paul II)
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Inside/01-97/creat2.html