From The Globe and Mail-Is the Pope Catholic? You might not think so if you’ve perused the headlines this week, as Pope Francis, who’s been making more news than Justin Bieber of late, set the media abuzz with his supposedly heretical bons mots on evolution and the Big Bang theory.
Cautioning against a literal interpretation of the Bible, the Pope told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that “evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” Yet if we read Genesis literally, “we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything.” And this image of God-as-Harry-Potter would be idiotic, wouldn’t it?
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/pope-francis-is-late-to-the-party/article21388197/
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