Re: Pope and Evolution...

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J Hart (jhart@goodnet.com) wrote:
: In article <3270EDD7.325E@mustang.uwo.ca>, emohamme@mustang.uwo.ca says...
: >
: >What is this I hear about the Pope (and the church) accepting
: >evolution as being real<clip>

: The Catholic faith has never opposed evolutionary theory.

Well, this is quite a claim. I'm sure you're wrong. The Vatican softened
towards evolution only in the 60s, under the influence of Teilhard de
Chardin, whom they persecuted while he lived... But the Vatican 2 accepted
his work posthumously.

Regards,

Yuri.

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