Today's Attitude: [Rabble Rouser]

YES, I VOTED LAST WEEK... SO WE'LL SEE TONIGHT,,
oh, wait, maybe we won't (see 'America, the Book').

Pope Accepts that Evolution May be True
Below is an article from nearly a year ago:
-Snip: Exerpt from Texas Catholic, Editorials Page, 12-19-03 -

No Catholic support for fundamentalist
creation views in Texas science books
Aug. 29, 2003

That God created the earth and all things on it, we have no doubt. However, how he did that is one of the wonders that scientists explore. Their discoveries become a source of fascination to most people.

Pope John Paul II, seeking to end some ignorance of the past on the part of Christians, said in his 1998 encyclical, “Faith and Reason,” that there is no conflict between science and religion — that they are of different but mutual spheres. What conflicts that we have had in recent years, like cloning humans, are about capabilities that create moral dilemmas. Even there, it is not the knowledge, but the use of knowledge, that is at issue.

With a proper Christian understanding of why scientific theories about evolution are no threat to faith, Catholics ought not to be among any group seeking to include some theory of creation that vies with evolution in science textbooks.

There is again in Texas another battle waging over what should be taught in biology textbooks for the public schools that will come to a fever pitch this fall.

We Catholics are not biblical fundamentalists in the sense that we interpret the Bible to mean that creation took place in some instant of time when all plants and animals were made distinct from one another. The Catholic point of view is that such literal interpretation of the Bible in this case is imposing a human view that limits the capability of God.

God can create evolution, too. Charles Darwin and his successors in science have enlightened us about the natural processes. Evolution is a fact in the minds of the scientific community, which is now only trying to figure out the details.

Therefore, no Catholic should join any group seeking to inject religious fundamentalism into Texas school science books.

In fact, we ought to oppose it.
—BLH

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I've been wanting to send this up for a while, but I've been side tracked.