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My family is full of "Born-Agains" who vehemently believe the world was created in 6 days (kind of like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat).
I sent this article out in a mass email to them and haven't heard a word back.
I can't wait until the Vatican acknowledges evolution as "Gods long term plan to arrive at modern humanity."
It's not the Catholic Church that's obstructing evolution. That's almost solely the domain of crazy American Evangelicals.
Both JP II and Pius XII recognized Darwin's theory as a "serious hypothesis" worthy of study and debate.
They don't care all the much about the body so long as science stays away from the soul.
"Even if the human body originates from pre-existent living matter, the spiritual soul is spontaneously created by God." - Pope John Paul II
And, a Jesuit priest, Georges Lemaitre, was one of the "founders" of what has become the "Big Bang Theory".
The Galileo/Pope Urban thing was a long, long time ago people.
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Amo i Gemelli!!