Originally posted by LutherMaherHere knock yerself out:
Your just recycling simplistic interpretations of complex historical events. Do you know anything beyond the one sentence referecnes to the Galileo incident in todays current events? Wait dont tell me....NO!
www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=38047
no retardation is taking place, the RC Church is not the ICR or AiG who because of their inability to place the Biblical texts in the contexts of the authors day, somehow contrive theories about how Biblical authors and specifically Genesis ones, had asstrology, cosmology, biology and natural history in mind when the Creation stories were being composed...
You're just trying to get on my good side. 🙂
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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/index.htm
List of members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences:
Stephen W. Hawking is a member as you can see.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/own/documents/rc_pa_acdscien_doc_20020103_academicians_en.html
Originally posted by XanthosNZI'm afraid not. the Roman-Catholic Church does not take the Genesis story literally. You'll have to come up with something better than this.
413 "God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. . . It was through the devil's envy that death entered the world" (Wis 1:13; 2:24).
414 Satan or the devil and the other demons are fallen angels who have freely refused to serve God and his plan. Their choice against God is definitive. They try to associate man in their re ...[text shortened]... http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm
That good enough for you? ......
Originally posted by kirksey957Where did you get this information ?
Case in point. A biomedical company has found a way to harvest stem cells without harming the embryos. Even the Bush administration is very positive about this deveolpment. But the Vatican? Yep, you guessed it.
Could you please post a link to an official Church comment on this issue ?
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Originally posted by LutherMaherYou should open a thread in the Debates Forum and invite no1marauder to discuss this issue with you.
if there is someone here with even a mediocre amount of knowledge in the fields of history and theology, I would invite you to discuss the Galileo story with me at my MSN Group
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Originally posted by ivanhoePlease don't. I have no wish to go through 50 pages of THAT again. I gave him the link to the previous discussion; if he wants to resurrect it, that's up to him. Unless there's some fresh info or different insights brought to bear, I'll think I'll skip this one.
You should open a thread in the Debates Forum and invite no1marauder to discuss this issue with you.
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Originally posted by Nemesiohttp://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0604749.htm
I cannot find an official Vatican pronouncement on why the
chief astronomer was fired. Do you have a link, Ivanhoe?
Nemesio
This claims he was "on sabbatical". Apparently he had an article published in a English newspaper, The Tablet, on August 6, criticizing ID again. This seems to have been the last straw.
EDIT: Prior info: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0504505.htm
