Nothing terribly new there, in terms of Catholic doctrine.
I myself learned the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) during freshman biology in a Catholic high school. In 1980.
It's nice to see the Vatican calling out the wackos, though.
I myself have always - as long as I can remember - been of the opinion that those first chapters of Genesis must be somewhat blurred. You've got the infinite unknowable talking about stellar mechanics to an nth-century BC Hebrew. For dispersal to an audience of same. Of course He'd simplify.
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Date: 2005-11-08 04:01 am (UTC)I myself learned the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) during freshman biology in a Catholic high school. In 1980.
It's nice to see the Vatican calling out the wackos, though.
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Date: 2005-11-08 10:14 am (UTC)