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Article: Catholic primate clings to evolution. (Catholic Church on the evolution theory)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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Surprisingly, on October 24, 1996, Pope John Paul II endorsed evolution as "more than just a theory" and thereby biblical fundamentalism as so-called scientific creationism was dealt yet another blow to its vacuous claims about the origin of this universe and the appearance of life-forms on the Earth. Biblical creationists continue to ignore the overwhelming empirical evidence for both the 4.6 billion-year age of this planet and the mutability of species, including our own, throughout all of organic history on the Earth.
In two major works, On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin had presented the idea of evolution as his theory ...
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