urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 Dec 2004, 14:56 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu Dec  9 14:56:38 2004
Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:58:40 -0500, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Notice the Catholics accepted evolution and thermodynamics while the
> Protestants do not, besides the fact Catholics don't deracinate Christianity
> 
> I was not aware of the former,

Though the scientific model of the universe, including the Big Bang
and evolution, is not "accepted" in the sense of being something the
Catholic church teaches as doctrine, it is, believe it or not, heretical to 
deny it on the basis of the first bit of Genesis. The argument is a bit
subtle, but basically, the ideas is that Genesis teaches that God created
the world, but to insist that He had to do it _that way_ because the
book says so is to limit God's freedom to create however He chooses.

This is not to say that Catholics can't believe in seven-day creation if
they choose. They just have to have better evidence, or at least they
can't deny that God might have done it the other way if He wanted to.

--Dan'l

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