Vatican promotes evolution (positively)

[ashling]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul's overall medical condition is "evolving positively," the Vatican said in its latest health bulletin on Thursday.
The statement said the breathing problems that had required the Pope, 84, to be taken to hospitals on Tuesday night were receding and that he had not suffered any further throat spasms.

"The Holy Father's general condition and his respiratory condition are evolving positively," the brief statement said

[Jamastiene]

1. Why do people believe

that if you believe in God, you can't believe in evolution, anyhow? Who's to say God didn't create the whole shebang using evolution? Well, it should make people think. I don't their use of the word evolving this time though.

[tjwmason]

2. This would have been written in Italian first

then translated into the various other languages - besides look at the texts of the Mass they really know how to use ugly English.

On evolution your quite right. The only dogmatic necessity of Christianity is creation ex nihilo, what processes God used thereafter are His business. Also many Theologians suspected that the earth was old way before scientific evidence suggested it - this whole 6000 years nonsense is a modern invention of the fundamentalist movement.

[ashling]

3. It was a joke for God's sake!

lighten up :)

[tjwmason]

4. Who isn't being light? n/t

[ashling]

6. Sorry

I meant to reply to the earlier post which seemed to be defensive, but I guess, in retrospect, I was actually replying to the next post, which hadn't even been posted yet, as it was really defensive ... unless they weren't being defensive ....

OH I GIVE UP!:shrug:

Can anybody help me get my foot out of my mouth?

[Bridget Burke]

5. The Roman Catholic Church came to terms with Science some time ago.

Look to the inbred snake handlers to find believers in Creationism.