The Vatican had a busy day, with the Pope moving from news of his new Discovery Channel series on exorcisms from the Vatican files to denouncing the big bang theory of life in our universe as a result of chance.
The Pope rarely talks about science and creation, but today was unyielding in his assertion that “The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe.”
“Contemplating it (the universe), we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God,” said the Pope on the day of the Epiphany.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world. via Reuters
The Vatican doesn’t wish to be seen as anti-science but rejects fundamentalism’s claims that Genesis is accurate and that the world is only as old as stated in the Old Testament. So we’re going to war with the Texas School Board, director of our nation’s textbooks, to teach American kids a theory that even the Vatican rejects.
Acceptingcreationism is a higher priority than our American children being properly educated in science and math, with the assertion that evolutionary biology does not exist.
Thu, January 6, 2011
Reader Comments (1)
I have never read a creation myth that did not slip the grip of logic at some point or another in the story. They pretty well have to, no one really knows what happened. For all the precision of its' mathematical pomposity even modern science is as guilty of this as were the authors of the oldest of folk legends on the subject. To hear the story the way they tell it the entire universe existed in a singularity, a single point of perfect symmetry so compressed nothing else existed, not even time. And then something happened, the symmetry was broken and the explosion resulting from that first point of asymmetry is now known as the beginning of the universe, the big bang.
Ok, that's the story the way the scientists tell it. All well and good, but guys, what could possibly break perfect symmetry? Just what was this something you were talking about? Oh, you don't know? You call yourselves the apogee of the race we plebian fools are expected to accept as God's replacement and you don't know? Hmmmm, sorry. No dice. Until you can tell me what that something was, make it a good tight story that doesn't sound like a typical con artist caught in a lie I'm going with the idea "I AM" works as well to break perfect symmetry as anything, and much better than most things.