Church on Evolution and
Creationism
Religion
Catholicism
See: Bishops who don't believe in God Atheism Darwinism
'... 1996, that year Pope John Paul II described evolution as
'no longer a mere hypothesis.'
'In 2004, as Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict endorsed the scientific view that the
earth is roughly four billion years old, and that species changed by evolution.'
The late Louis Leakey (1903-1972), the senior paleoanthropologist of Africa was
adamant that the French paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Tielhard de
Chardin (above) was responsible for the biggest hoax in modern scientific
history, the 'Piltdown Fraud' "Evolution is a
condition to which all theories must bow, a curve all lines must follow." (35)
- Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster
"This week we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles
Darwin. His theory of evolution, one of the greatest discoveries of all time,
gives us a way of understanding the connectedness of all life and the uniqueness
of human life within it."
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Thompson, Damian
Damian Thompson, British journalist, editor-in-chief of the
Catholic Herald, writer for The Daily Telegraph
"Creationism in all it's forms does incalculable damage; no other form of
pseudoscience undermines so many scientific discoveries. If you refuse to
acknowledge the awesome explanatory power of the theory of evolution, you can
never understand astronomy, anthropology, biology, geology, palaeontology,
physics or zoology."
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