http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_aliens_3 It will be interesting to see how many religious folks now come out of the wood work saying they have always believed in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. I didn't know they had accepted Evolution. Regardless, it is nice to see some religious bodies actually accepting science. I can only guess that this move has a lot to do with the discoveries made by the Mars rovers, the Saturn orbiter, and the discovery of extra-solar planets.
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lol one step at a time. Personally, I'd have preferred it being OK to believe in heterosexual-homosexual equality or women's reproductive rights before those buggers from Alpha Centauri got the green light, but hey, what do I know, I'm not the infallible bloke with the big hat and scary eyes.
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Err, the catholic church has officially accepted evolution, the big bang, our migration out of Africa...
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Sounds okay to me.
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Um, the Catholics by and large accept evolution.
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The Catholic church started believing in evolution around 1950. Where you been?
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The last Pope already said it was OK.
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The Vatican is just facing reality. They can't deny the FACT of evolution or the POSSIBILITY that extraterrestrial life exists. They're trying to avoid the trap they've fallen into many times before . . . denying the obvious despite everybody else knowing better. Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, etc., have all given the Catholic church a well-deserved bad rap.
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Yes they also said it was okay to believe the Earth revolves around the sun.
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True Christianity has embraced science. Jesus calls on us to study the natural world to further learn of the character of God. Its not that Christians dont believe in evolution, but not macroevolution - fish turning into a goat that turned into a bat that turned into a snake that turned into a gorilla....now thats the real foolishness
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The Vatican accepted evolution years ago dear, just like everyone else. There is just a minority of uneducated fundies in the USA that make fools of themselves by rejecting it.
