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But he did not specifically define what he means by "Evolution," nor did he fully elaborate how objective truth known from Tradition and theological reality can differ from the relative truth known from ever-changing scientific theories, especially since theology and empirical scientific investigation can sometimes overlap (e.g., on issues such as abortion, in vitro fertilization, contraception, euthanasia and the global Flood of Noah; all of these are proper subject matter for both theologians and scientists).

Has Pope John Paul II been inaccurately informed by his advisers, to the detriment of truth? Some of his other scientific comments made on October 22, 1996, seem most inconsistent with the actual findings of modern science:

"Evolution is more than a hypothesis. . . . It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory."

What discoveries? In light of modern scientific information, how can Natural Evolution now be regarded as anything other than failed attempted hypotheses? The highly complex information encoded on DNA suggests that only "like begets like." The missing mechanism of Evolution is doomed to remain ever-elusive because there is no mechanism to find, and evolutionary "convergence" never occurred because it cannot occur!

Further, has the Holy Father also been misinformed, in an effort to convince him that the biological aspects of Origins are somehow explicable by tying Naturalistic Evolution to divine intervention, as the following extracts from his October 22, 1996 speech imply:

"ontological discontinuity," "Consideration of the method used in the various branches of knowledge makes it possible to reconcile two points of view which would seem irreconcilable," "correlate them with the time line," "the moment of transition to the spiritual"?

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