Re: In the News: Pope says science too narrow to explain creation

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From the article:

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By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

The Pope also says the Darwinist theory of evolution is not completely
provable because mutations over hundreds of thousands of years cannot
be reproduced in a laboratory.

Transubstantiation, on the other hand, has been demonstrated under
laboratory conditions on any number of occasions.

You are missing the point. Evolutionists claim to be guided by
empiricism and scientific method. The Pope merely pointed out that
replicability is the cornerstone of the so-called scientific method
and this standard was not adhered to in proclaiming the validity of
evolution. Next issue.

Just as Galileo was not able to replicate the motion of the earth.

Or just as today, no one is able to replicate a hurricane.

But evolution can be replicated.


I do not see a difference between the Bible's account of creation and
the theory of evolution because the Bible does not specify that those
days and nights of creation were solar days and nights. They could
just have easily been cosmic days and nights of God's choosing.
Hinduism has an interesting cosmogony that views days and nights in
terms on a cosmic scale with 4,320,000,000 solar years equal to 1 day
of Brahman. The Christian God could just as easily been using a
similar system.


Whether those days were solar days, or lunar days, or dog days, if you
take the sequence literally, then you get the rather "interesting" order:

The firmament appeared on day 2.

The earth and the waters were separated, and grass and fruit
trees appeared, on day 3.

The sun, moon, and stars appeared on day 4.

Fish and birds appeared on day 5.

Land animals appeared on day 6.

Internal parasites and living things other than plants and animals
are never mentioned.

Of course, science today is generally agreed that the sun appeared
before there were any plants on earth; that birds appeared after the
first land animals; that fruit trees did also; and that there is no
firmament (separating the waters above from the waters below).


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---Tom S.
"...when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and
in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it."
GK Chesterton, Doubts About Darwinism (1920)

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