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What does this test mean?
Well, rock formation can easily be explained with the use of water, earth and lava flow.
Now imagine the world was a giant empty container and God filled it with three elements,
lava, water and earth. The water would carry the other two elements for awhile, but eventually
everything would settle down at a rapid pace if the water was still. The heavier material
would go to the bottom and the lighter would go to the top. In the given demonstartion case, water. On top of this,
the weight of the water now above would then compact the lava and earth below, and finally if the water was separated from the remaining elements by strong heat rays from the Sun, these elements would
harden and become rock like.
You can try another simple test every morning on your way to work with a bowl of micro waved
porridge. Eat as much porridge as you like, but leave a small bit of scrap. Now don’t clean up
after you, go to work and leave the central heating on as that is important (You may need the
consent of the bill payer to do this). After work, come home to your snug house and take a look
at your neglected scrap of porridge. The water has dried up and the porridge has become rock like.
This symbolically demonstrates that water can mould a lot of rock very rapidly and when the water
dries up, well, do you see where I’m going with all this? I’m basically saying that rock can
be formed rapidly.
Ok, so what is the position of the Catholic Church on the creation evolution debate?
The position is, the Catholic Church has no problem with the theory of evolution, so long
as it does not affect your faith in God (emphasis mine). Now my reading from this is that if evolution has inadvertantly affected your faith in God, then it natuarlly has a problem with the kind of evolution you've been indoctrinated with. You must believe as a catholic that there
was two original parents according to the catechism. At present genesis is considered a story with a certain truth by many within the church. On saying that, Polygamy is not an acceptable teaching from the churches point of view as this would mean we had many first parents...
What did Pope John Paul II say in 1996 about evolution?
Pope John Paul stated that “evolution is now more than a hypothesis”, end of quote.
What did he mean?
It appears that he is approving of the theory of evolution here. However it is open to
interpretation and Pope John Paul II was not making a public statement on this issue, he was
addressing the 'Pontifical Academy of Science' which is an institution funded by the Catholic Church.
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