By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - God's mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.
"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.
"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said in a sermon to some 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the feast day.
While the pope has spoken before about evolution, he has rarely delved back in time to discuss specific concepts such as the Big Bang ...
"The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism -- the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible -- and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world." - are you serious? when did the Church decide that?
ReplyDeleteThe Modernists were condemned precisely (among other things) for claiming that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory and not the literal truth.
ReplyDeleteThat's Reuters for you. They often don't get things right when it comes to Catholicism.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think the Church ever officially said that the so called "big bang" was anything more than just a theory along with evolution. Luckily for us the Pope is not infallible everytime he opens his mouth.
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