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Evolution?

5/12/2015

 
From aeon: Why does the Vatican accept the Big Bang but not evolution? by John Farrell
…When it comes to human evolution, the Vatican of 2015 is stuck in a time warp, unable to integrate the explosion of new knowledge about humanity’s origins and its potential future into a meaningful narrative for the Catholic Church, whose 1.2 billion members worldwide look to it for guidance in a changing world.

The inability to adapt to basic knowledge is a monumental failure on the part of Rome and its theologians, one that, in the prophetic words of the late Pope John Paul II, can only lead to the continuing fragmentation of human culture – not to mention the fragmentation of the Church itself. In fact, refusal to accept the findings of science threatens the Church and its membership not just in Europe and the US (where one in 10 of every Americans is already an ex-Catholic), but in Latin America, Asia and Africa, in almost every populated part of the Earth.  Read full essay.

[John Farrell writes about science and technology for publications including Forbes, New Scientist and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Day Without Yesterday (2005), and lives in Boston.]

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