Again, the Church does not teach that this thought it blasphemous. I’m sorry, but your opinion does not match the teachings of the Church in this regard.
Exactly, but you seem to be missing your own point here. Each side can argue, but neither side can say that the other view is heretical or opposed to Church teaching. That is what you are doing with evolution. No one here is saying the same about creationism.
When you claim that science says Man descended from monkeys, or chimpanzees, I have to admit I question your ability to distinguish between true science and pseudo-science.
Are you a Catholic? Do you know the Apostle’s Creed?
I think you have a smokescreen there.
Maybe she doesn’t. But she also doesn’t say that it isn’t blasphemous. So I am free to hold that it is since she doesn’t say that it isn’t. You seem to be reasonable. I hope you will see my point here.
Evolution claims that men descended from savage beasts, i.e. non-rational animals. Your fellow evolutionist Ghosty has acknowledged that. You should read his posts.
You are assuming that theology is not science. The Church calls theology a sacred science.
Yes I am Catholic and yes I know the Apostles’ Creed.
This is just not true. The number of scripture verses that the Church has infallibly interpreted is very limited, only about two dozen or so verses. So obviously the Church would not say that evolution is not in conflict with the Bible since she hasn’t infallibly interpreted the whole Bible yet (and probably never will).
I apologize for not being more sensitive and polite. Not to take anything away from my apology, but I suggest you look back at your own posts since some of them seemed pretty insulting themselves.
The Church doesn’t permit people to hold blasphemous positions, but the Church does allow us to hold the opinion that the human body evolved. One can easily infer, then, that the Church teaches that the view isn’t blasphemous.
That isn’t his point. He’s talking about the fact that chimps and apes didn’t exist while humans were evolving. We are descended from common, non-ape ancestors. It just a common misunderstanding that many creationists hold.
The Church doesn’t have to infallibly interpret a passage in order for us to hold an opinion. The Papacy has stated, through a few different Popes now, that evolution is acceptable when it accepts certain premises, which I’ve listed above. The article you cited misses this point because the purpose of that document was not to treat on human origins, but marriage. The documents that allow for evolution to be accepted are Papal Encyclicals specifically dealing with the origins of humanity.
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Until, of course, the Catholic faith says something you don’t agree with.
Who said the Church would define evolution as a dogma?
Not likely, given that dinosaurs disappeared long before the first homonids came along.
Wasn’t behemoth a hippopotamus?
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Dinosaur bones and skeletons are big business. Amateur dinosaur hunters/diggers have made a cottage industry by digging up fossils in the Dakotas and selling them to the highest bidder. A small T-Rex skeleton was sold to the Japanese for about $5 million.
There is a fasinating book I read last year called: THE FIRST FOSSIL HUNTERS: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (c. 2000) by Adrienne Mayor, where this graduate student found that the ancient Romans and Greeks had museums and exhibited dinosaur fossils though they thought they were the bones of ‘Griffons’ and ‘Dragons’ .
There was a mammoth skeleton found in Virginia in the late 1700s – Thomas Jefferson helped finance the dig and appears in a painting, “The Excavation of the Mammoth.”
