If you believe in god, you're an idiot...

[Humerox]

Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

...One interesting aspect of ID, to me, is lack of acceptance by the Vatican. Catholic policy has slowly evolved (heh) to accept the possibility of Darwin's theories but high-ranking church scholars reject ID. I don't quite understand the reasoning, but it has something to do with the difference between divine causality and created causality...

From Communion and Stewardship:

it is important to note that, according to the Catholic understanding of divine causality, true contingency in the created order is not incompatible with a purposeful divine providence. Divine causality and created causality radically differ in kind and not only in degree. Thus, even the outcome of a truly contingent natural process can nonetheless fall within God’s providential plan for creation.

Yes...Catholics have their cake and eat it, too...and it's a much more preferable view than the bible thumping "you're goin' to hell fer sayin' we come from monkeys, boy" crowd.

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