On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Supriya Nair <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't aware that Catholic teachings in the States trod the Proddie line > on this count? For some reason I was under the impression that Creationism > is a preoccupation particular to [some] Protestant sects in the United > States. Several Catholic friends have told me that their church discussions > [in Bombay] have been holding up this view of things for a while now - to > say nothing of state schools run by parishes which teach both the Catechism > and evolution; thankfully not in the same class.
I studied for 11 years in Catholic schools and religion teachers seemed very unconcerned with Evolution as a problem to faith. I remember how surprised I was the first time I heard of someome taking Creationism seriously. Now the meme has spread here among several fundamentalist churches and they usually repeat all the same talking points. Andre
