Pope Francis: ‘Evolution of Nature Is Not Inconsistent with the Notion of Creation’
The increasingly popular pope warns against the perils of depicting God as a “magician,” adding that evolution and creation are not incompatible ideas. And while Pope Francis isn’t the first Catholic Church leader to suggest this, American conservatives keep somehow missing the memo. Even the previous pope, Benedict XVI, who’s known for his traditionalism, “found the American debate between creationists and those who backed evolution ‘absurd.’”
The Guardian:
Francis, 77, said it was easy to misinterpret the creation story as recounted in the book of Genesis, according to which God created heaven and Earth in six days and rested on the seventh.
“When we read the creation story in Genesis we run the risk of imagining that God was a magician, with a magic wand which is able to do everything,” he said. “But it is not so. He created beings and let them develop according to internal laws which He gave every one, so they would develop, so they would reach maturity.”
Although Francis was packaging the ideas with his trademark eye for a soundbite, the content of what he was saying does not mark a break with Catholic teaching, which has modified considerably since Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species in 1859.
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