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In article <hj70s2hp9gp25g40khe1sgrspd49n6hmgu@4ax.com>, Aleks A.-Lessmann
wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:50:28 -0500, Josh Hill wrote:
>>On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:04:48 GMT, Jeffrey MacHott
>><Raguleader@netzero.net> wrote:
>>>On that note, fun fact that I only recently learned; Catholicism is 
>>>Evolution-Compatible(TM).  We don't say you HAVE to believe it, but 
>>>we're saying you CAN believe it as it doesn't contradict anything the 
>>>Church believes.
>>IIRC, the Church has actually endorsed evolution.

Heck, evoltion can be made Religion Compatible[tm].  God caused evolution
to occur.  QED.

Nevermind that evolution as held in large belief is likely a fallacy.  See
James P. Hogan's book, "Kicking the Sacred Cow".  Also a good source of
real information regarding the myth known as Global Warming, exposure of
cosmological fallacies and fictions, some interesting information about
"AIDS" (read it, and you'll see why I put it in quotes), and exposure of
modern science as a shadow of what it purports to be.  I'd recommend it to
anyone with an open mind that can look beyond political correctness for the
duration of the read.  

Lest I forget, in direct relation to this, the book not only covers
evolution, but intelligent design--and explains what it -really- is, not
what the recent court railroadings-er, rulings over several school district
suits have held it to be.  Actually, he cites one scientist's mathematical
model for detecting intelligent design, and it was quite compellingly
elegant.

The book is available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook.  www.baen.com for
the eBook format.

>Myeah, kinda. While John Paul II decidedly supported evolution, I don't
>remember him saying that Ex-Catedra. In the last half a year there have
>been mumblings about the new Pope or his entourage - while not
>supporting ID Creationism, at least not condemning US American bishops
>who support it.

As a Recovering Catholic (still whittling down the attendant guilt complex
after 36 years), I feel entitled to say that The Church is something I hold
to be largely a political instrument, not a spiritual one.  Most organised
religion is, after a short initial period of idealism that gives way to the
selling out to power-driven control structures.

-- 
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--Diana Trent, "Waiting for God", on why a modelling agency is really a
knocking-shop.  Applied by me to the field of consulting.  :)

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