Author John C. Wright has entered the Church

[VociMike]

Don’t know if this is the right forum for this, but I think it’s joyful news. This man is the epitome of “faith and reason”, with a lot of good clean fun (the unabashed joy of being alive) thrown in. He has gone from philosophic atheist to Christian believer to member of the Catholic Church.

johncwright.livejournal.com/

 

[Biblioassistant]

I have his site bookmarked. Wonderful news and I am so pleased for him.

 

[rien]

He said he joined in part because the Catholic church embraces Darwiniaism? I know it is troublingly moving that way but has the church officially endorsed Darwiniaism yet? I don’t think so.

 

[strngrnrth]

He said he joined in part because the Catholic church embraces Darwiniaism? I know it is troublingly moving that way but has the church officially endorsed Darwiniaism yet? I don’t think so.

I hope not, since mainstream scientists don’t believe Darwinism anymore. Darwinism is more than the theory that livingthings change. It’s a very specific description of how life began and developed that has been discarded in favor of a model that has life appearing immediately after liquid water becomes available, then developing in still-unexplained bursts between long stages of stability of forms.

 

[rien]

I hope not, since mainstream scientists don’t believe Darwinism anymore. Darwinism is more than the theory that livingthings change. It’s a very specific description of how life began and developed that has been discarded in favor of a model that has life appearing immediately after liquid water becomes available, then developing in still-unexplained bursts between long stages of stability of forms.

Well he thinks so and that is one reason he joined and encouraged atheists to giove the RCC another look.

This sounds like another Tony Blari conversion. That is about the typical kind happening it seems these days. In the US anyway.

 

[inthecloud]

He said he joined in part because the Catholic church embraces Darwiniaism? I know it is troublingly moving that way but has the church officially endorsed Darwiniaism yet? I don’t think so.

Not embraced but not denied either.

Process theology that is a undercurrent does embrace some of Darwins ideas. And of course the Church does not embrace Genesis 1 to 11 literalism.

I’m i love it that way. It does make a lot of sense. The fact that the Church is trying hard to work classic christianity and modern science is very appealing. Cardinal Newman and Bishop Lemaitre will be proud.

 

[bcuster]

“Not only does the Catholic Church acknowledge Darwinian evolution, the approach of at least some of the writers (St. Aquinas, for example, or St. Justin Martyr) is as rigorous and as rational as even the best of atheist writers, and darn mile more clear and rational than the worst of atheist writers (who are the only ones we hear about these days)”

The above quote is taken from his blog.
Note the work “acknowledge” not promote, believe, etc. Natural Selection happens. If it happens it must be a mechanism that God wisely places into His Plan of Creation.

 

[thomasf]

One of the things that attracted me back to the church is the idea that one can believe in evolution and not be in conflict with the beliefs of the church. I have an evangelical friend that strongly opposes evolution because it’s not in the bible. It really makes her mad that as a catholic I can believe in both.

 

[VociMike]

He said he joined in part because the Catholic church embraces Darwiniaism? I know it is troublingly moving that way but has the church officially endorsed Darwiniaism yet? I don’t think so.

“Acknowledges”, not “embraces”. I don’t think he was intending to make a precise statement about the Church’s teachings on the biology of the origins and evolution of life. The context here is in arguing that the the Church is not “backwards and obscurantist” as so many assume, but that she embraces both faith and reason and does not see the two in conflict (again, as so many assume). So if reason, science in this case, makes true claims about the biological origin and development of life, then this reality cannot conflict with the truth of the faith. Which is a position quite impossible for any Christian to argue against.

 

[inthecloud]

I have an evangelical friend that strongly opposes evolution because it’s not in the bible. It really makes her mad that as a catholic I can believe in both.

Since the worthwhile educational systems around the world have to teach evolution and the fundangelicals sabotage efforts are not going to endure forever, I often wonders what is on the store for their brand of Christianity in the long term. Going to class is going to bring a major crisis of faith. No more biologists, MDs of that religous afliliation?

 

[thomasf]

Since the worthwhile educational systems around the world have to teach evolution and the fundangelicals sabotage efforts are not going to endure forever, I often wonders what is on the store for their brand of Christianity in the long term. Going to class is going to bring a major crisis of faith. No more biologists, MDs of that religous afliliation?

As a biology major, this either or thing always perplexes me. Where does it say there has to be one or the other? And I always ask these people who deny evolution, do you deny your doctors or medical science? Because just about every new advance in modern medicine can trace itself back to evolution. Without evolution, there’s no genetics. Without genetics, there is no treatments to most of the medical problems of today. Modern medicine depends on the theory of evolution. Yet very few people are willing to walk away from modern medicine and deny it like they do evolution.

I often wonder if there will be a lack of doctors coming from the evangelical bible belt in the south. Most of those people reject the idea of evolution, and without that there’s no doctors.

 

[inthecloud]

Evolution is what makes biology works as a science. No evolution, no biology, no modern medicine.

I wonder is the US Bible Belt will get his future doctors from India or Latinamerica.
And that only agnostics/atheist will become doctors there. And the odd Catholic/mainstream Protestant.