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On 9/1/2015 9:04 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:
> ...the Pope's tag-along newly prescribed declaration of a Day of Prayer for Creation on September 1, which sounds to carry with it the old religious message that the world's inhabitants were once 'created' by an omnipotent being -- in a 19th century version, just ~6000 years ago. ...this does not accord with any scientific views of how life developed on Earth that have been elaborated in the 156 years since Darwin's famous book. The details of parts of this are still actively emerging with new discoveries all the time and the actual origin of life is highly conjectural, and could be discussed in a forum like this, but I don't see that quasi-religious propaganda (or oblique support for it herein) has a place here -- whether coming from Creationists, Intelligent Designers or even from supporters of the latest Pope, courageous in some areas though he has been shown to be.
* the use of "Creation" for the Universe doesn't imply any particular
scenario for the event - you can just as well say the Universe was
created at the Big Bang as follow the literalistic reading of the
Genesis narrative.
fred.
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