spurgeonryan said:
Also for the Catholic thing that I think Mummelman posted, is that hard core evolution or just the knowledge that things do adapt. That is the easy part to swallow, but at a point you need to show Christians more evidence. I am not sure if Catholics fully believe that evolution is as scientist say it is.
Also Catholics have a long history of going against science, so this is not a surprise that they have accepted it in this day and age. If it is true that they whole heartedly accepted evolution. I doubt that is the actual case though. |
Catholics, both the Church, including the Pope, and common people, generally have no problems with the evolution, creationists are a very small minority.
Catholics opposed science more than other religions just between the Council of Trent and the end of XVII century, but just to precise one thing, Catholics stopped burning presumed bitches before Protestants, and Protestants, particularly Calvinists, burned more of them in less than 3 centuries than Catholics since the Middle Age. Also, despite prejudices, during the short period between the second half of XVI century and the end of XVII, Christians in general burnt more "witches" than during the much longer and presumed "darker" Middle Age.
After the true dark age, Church's attitude towards science became far more broadminded, and the father himself of Genetics, Gregor Mendel, was a Catholic friar. Catholic Church took centuries to admit it was wrong about Galileo, but I guess they were too embarrassed.
