Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:28:34 +0100 William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Leonard Matusik wrote:
>>on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:53:59 -0500 Gary Denton wrote:
>>>On 7/10/05, KZK wrote:
>>>>http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/56.php
>>>>
>>>>The influential Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna has suggested
>>>> that belief in evolution as accepted by science today may be
>>>> incompatible with Catholic faith.
>>>This disagrees with previous Catholic Church doctrine regarding
evolution.
>>>For decades children going to Catholic School had been taught there is
>>>no incompatibility between Darwin and Church teachings. A new
>>>conservative Pope and now Cardinals following the lead of Protestant
>>>fundamentalists - are we headed for a new "mildly Darkish Age" -
>>>trying to head off another long exchange about the degree of darkness
>>>the last one was?
>>GARY DENTON! using the *F* word again (Fundamentalist :#)
>>To tell the truth I agree with the good Cardinal. The advancement of
>>evolutionary theory is in a deplorable state. Maybe I haven't kept up
>>with it properly but how is it again that we explain blind cave fish and
>>alkaloids in higher plants from a Drawinian-TM perspective?
>I think we have the answer!
(bZZZZt) No, .. I'm sorry .........that is INcorrect.
(and we have run out of time for you to make good on it)
The answer to the question:
"How is it again that we explain blind cave fish and
higher plant alkaloids from a Drawinian-TM perspective? "
is................... "Poorly at best, William......poorly at best".
("I think we MAY have AN answer".... would have also been accepted)
...................................................but thanks for playing our
little game.
The *point* of the matter IS that, Charles Darwin was a deeply spiritual man
who did not approach his very young theory with the flippancy
of most people today.
THAT is what Cardinal Chris is pointing out.
(and notice the qualifying language he uses,
the Church has learned alot since Gallileo)
But....David Loye says it better:
"In the Descent of Man Charles Darwin wrote only twice of "survival of the
fittest" but 95 times about love! 92 times about moral sensitivity. And 200
times about brain and mind.
Suppression over 100 years of the real Darwin has led to the social, political,
economic, scientific, educational, moral and spiritual mess we are in today."
-----------for more Darwin fun check out his web site
http://www.thedarwinproject.com/
(and no this is NOT a Catholic site, it's a tree-hugger site)
Leonard "HighOnPope" Matusik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence
whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the
silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more
likely to be foolish than sensible."
- Bertrand Russell
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(easy, eh? random mutation, natural selection;..random mutation, natural
selection;
random mutation, natural selection;... random mutation, natural
selection........
..try singing it with a little song................fun for the whole
family.............
.................. and to think *he* had to write a whole bloody book...
pompous boffin.)
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