RetiredGySgt
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Thanks for the character reference.
Vatican II which commenced under Blessed John XXIII rehabilitated the brilliant palaeonotoligst and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In his "The Phenomenon of Man", Chardin presented his (then) almost heretical views and did so with an intellectual power that blasts the Creationists into the ether. I've spent a lot of time reading his (posthumously published) book. I don't pretend to understand most of it. I do stand in awe of his intellect. I am not going to give credence to simplistic thinking represented by the fundie Creationist brigade. If I want to believe that rubbish I'll move to Topeka.
If your calling me a Fundamentalist Christian, you would be so wrong as to be laughable. Have you not been paying attention? Ask Chips why he thinks thats laughable.
If I showed up at a Fundamentalist meeting they would likely tar and feather me and no not because I am a Mormon, though I am sure that doesn't help.
There is absolutely no reason science and religion can not AND IN FACT DO exist side by side. I suggest you do a study of Lawyers, Doctors, Graduate students, Phd's, Scientists and others with educational credentials, you will be shocked to find how many also are religious.
There is nothing in the Theory of Evolution that contradicts the Bible at all. Nothing that is actually proven to exists that is. Isn't it telling that Science can not come up with a credible, workable, testable theory of how life began?Every group has extremists, Religion and Science are not immune to that. Fortunately for us extremists in either group do not actually hold much real sway or power over those groups or their beliefs and work. They do make for convenient boogie men to throw out though do they not?