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Just show me the words which said human came from apes.
It doesn’t allow either
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From the Catechism:
That is an acknowledgement and acceptance of the science. The emphasis was added by me to point out the language used in this sentence. It does not say the appearance of age, *proposed *dimensions of the cosmos or theoretical development of life forms and the appearance of man. The sentence is written as an affirmation of the science.
You have been given numerous citations that directly contradict your statement.
Is that all you got out of that? How about responding to the substance of the post and of the link I provided.
Sorry, Creos, I misread your post. I thought you were claiming that only the literal reading of Genesis could be taught had been declared infallibly. My mistake.
Where does it say evolution “theory”? where does it say one can accept E"T" without damaging faith?
Are you accusing of all past popes are heretics?
sort it out for me. none of them said human come from apes.
Sorry Tim, but Pope Leo XIII’s statement was ex-cathedra and the only dogmatic one on this subjectSorry, Creos, I misread your post. I thought you were claiming that only the literal reading of Genesis could be taught had been declared infallibly. My mistake.
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Tim
That is the beauty of that post. It deals with the FACT of evolution and cosmology. No theory mentioned in that statement.
Are you accusing recent popes of being heretics?
Tradition. That was what the post was about, remember? Also, the link I provided related to taking Genesis literally. You haven’t responded to either.
Even science doesn’t accept E"T" as a fact. by what authority you say Church accepts it as fact?
Then how can current Popes teach differently? Clearly, the Catechism differs on that.
I mistakenly thought that John Paul the Great, of happy memory, HAD made the non-ordination of women ex-cathedra. He didn’t. This was explained by the then head of the CDF, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who, as we know, got a promotion recently. He said it was a part of the “ordinary magisterium,” that it was what the Church had always taught. Also, the CCC, quoted above, IS also authoritative (the pope cannot propose something for the whole of the Church and call it a “sure and certain” norm for the teaching of the faith and then have it turn out to be in error). We are not held to a literal interpretation of Genesis, except I think insofar as we must believe that we came from one man and one woman. Someone else can help me if I’m mistaken. I don’t normally worry about this, as I believe that God created us and how He went about it is miles above my head.
I don’t say that the Church accepts the theory of evolution as a fact. I said that the Church accepts the FACT of evolution as a fact.
No recent popes teach nothing. their words are ambiguous. however past popes’ words are clear: Humans are directly created by God.