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For one thing, while most Christians respect him, not all are Catholic Arok Manok - 11/04/2004 06:24:41 PM

And consequently, non-Catholics for instance, do not accept the word of the Pope as the word of God in all cases.

Most of us agree that he is a spiritual leader, a figurehead of a faith, but he is still a man, and capable of being co-opted, and so just because he decides that Evolution is fine, it doesn't mean that everyone who believes that Jesus Christ is their saviour will accept that God set evolution in motion and did not directly create man.

Plenty of people still believe in the story of Adam and Eve and Eden, and the theory of Evolution in large part denies that, or at least leaves it as nothing more than a metaphor.

It all depends on how sure you are that the Bible is just metaphors, and how much you take to be literal. There are varying degrees of acceptance as well. Some people believe in evolution, but also believe that a certain group of people, the ancestors of the Israelites, perhaps, came separately from Eden, which would explain how they reproduced, or rather how their children reproduced, as if there were not other people outside of Eden, God would either have had to create spouses for the children of Adam and Eve, or those children would have had to mate with eachother.

For all of the way we're mocked around here and elsewhere, plenty of people are still fundamentalists, believing that the Bible speaks of literal events, that miracles like walking on water and creating food from nowhere can occur, and that our God did craft man personally, at a particular time, not as the result of some well-organized evolution.

Does that make sense?

Essentially, accepting the Pope's decision depends on whether you accept certain things in the Bible as more than metaphor.


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I find it odd that many religious people are still anti-evolution - 11/04/2004 06:08:32 PM 260 Views
Not everyone acknowledges the Pope. *NM* - 11/04/2004 06:15:07 PM 13 Views
I'm sorry... but this was somehow extremely funny. *NM* - 11/04/2004 06:20:20 PM 12 Views
I can see it now..."You just knocked over the Pope!" - 11/04/2004 06:25:47 PM 63 Views
Heh. Cool smiley. *NM* - 11/04/2004 09:49:25 PM 6 Views
I forgive you. *NM* - 11/04/2004 06:43:04 PM 7 Views
For one thing, while most Christians respect him, not all are Catholic - 11/04/2004 06:24:41 PM 62 Views
of course, that can be referred to my post lower on the board - 11/04/2004 07:03:31 PM 26 Views
As to Catholics - 11/04/2004 07:56:18 PM 23 Views
Shouldn't it be the other way around? - 11/04/2004 08:37:27 PM 36 Views
Of course not. - 11/04/2004 09:34:38 PM 25 Views
You know... - 12/04/2004 04:25:25 AM 20 Views
Also, where did Caine's wife come from? - 12/04/2004 06:35:28 AM 25 Views
Exactly! - 12/04/2004 02:19:40 PM 16 Views
Wow, what an original point!!!! - 13/04/2004 05:01:22 AM 12 Views
Demonsesese! *NM* - 13/04/2004 11:07:02 AM 6 Views
Mel Gibson's dad - 12/04/2004 05:27:41 AM 22 Views
Well, to be fair, Jews are not Christians... - 13/04/2004 11:12:03 AM 11 Views
Not my meaning - 15/04/2004 07:14:24 AM 5 Views
*arrives in a hijacked popemobile* - 11/04/2004 07:15:03 PM 45 Views
Do you have some good papal history links? *NM* - 12/04/2004 05:30:09 AM 7 Views
id reccomend reading books on it - 15/04/2004 12:55:01 PM 5 Views
People that don't are mostly literal-believers. - 11/04/2004 07:37:35 PM 24 Views
I feel that too many people are becoming Arian-type Christians. - 13/04/2004 11:16:48 AM 10 Views
are you really suprised? - 11/04/2004 08:11:01 PM 31 Views
Please note - 11/04/2004 08:45:22 PM 26 Views
Re: Please note - 12/04/2004 01:45:31 AM 15 Views
I agree. Evolution may be the method reason understands... - 13/04/2004 12:01:24 PM 8 Views
people prefer mysticism and faith to fact and science - 11/04/2004 10:41:41 PM 32 Views
Thought I was gonna have to disagree with you. - 12/04/2004 01:27:16 AM 30 Views
A snide response. - 12/04/2004 09:13:12 PM 14 Views
But there IS evidence. Just not published in Science journals. - 13/04/2004 05:12:40 AM 14 Views
Geez. - 13/04/2004 08:00:07 AM 18 Views
The point of faith is that you don't need scientific proof. - 13/04/2004 11:39:14 AM 11 Views
You do realize - 13/04/2004 03:49:06 PM 13 Views
Science is based on sensible assumptions... - 13/04/2004 11:49:54 AM 12 Views
Yeah, *sensible assumptions*, - 13/04/2004 03:13:43 PM 11 Views
But not proven - 13/04/2004 03:15:50 PM 10 Views
Huh? - 13/04/2004 03:54:38 PM 12 Views
True - 13/04/2004 04:05:10 PM 12 Views
You can't prove existential negatives. - 13/04/2004 04:22:17 PM 11 Views
Re: You can't prove existential negatives. - 13/04/2004 04:34:02 PM 9 Views
See THEOLOGY for Reason in support of Faith. *NM* - 13/04/2004 11:53:43 AM 7 Views
Like what? - 13/04/2004 04:23:31 PM 7 Views
Next time you're in the barber chair... - 13/04/2004 11:19:52 AM 12 Views
You still don't get it. - 13/04/2004 03:09:56 PM 14 Views
Furthermore, the age of the world is a separate issue from evolution. *NM* - 12/04/2004 12:08:34 AM 9 Views
Not entirely. If a Christian found a way to prove the Earth was young - 12/04/2004 01:36:12 AM 23 Views
Yeah, but they're still two separate issues. - 12/04/2004 02:12:50 AM 17 Views
They are linked, and one requires the other. - 13/04/2004 11:43:43 AM 12 Views
No. No, not really. - 13/04/2004 03:51:51 PM 7 Views
*shrugs* - 12/04/2004 06:19:05 AM 16 Views
I think it is silly to hold onto beliefs from a book written by , you - 12/04/2004 10:31:13 AM 26 Views
it's not the catholics - 13/04/2004 03:55:14 PM 13 Views