Pope Is Cool With Evolution and Big Bang Theory

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

Bazinga.

 

 

 

The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator – arguing instead that they “require it”. “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said.He added: “He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html

[Zeus 7997]

I know Pope John Paul II said the same thing but reiteration is key. I'm glad to see he's willing to find ways to reconcile his faith and scientific findings rather than pretend one half of either argument doesn't exist.

[CAT5 9075]

Pope Franc is on a roll, haha

[Biopanda 2675]

I hate the pope now. Anyone who is okay with Big Bang Theory is a terrible person ;/

[relentless 254]

 

The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”

 

 

This is a great way of summing it up and something I feel like those that practice Christianity should take to heart.

[hitsuji-hime 211]

The only Pope that I will ever like. uwu

[Nisimaldar 153]

A lot of people think that the Big Bag theory disproves the monotheistic belief. Which is not the case.
Of course the Pope is cool with the Big Bag and evolution theory because Christians can use it to strengthen their argument of a divine creator. The theory just says that there was a small singularity - a point of infinite density and infinitesimal volume. But where did this point come from? In one of the cosmological arguments that monotheists use (causal chains and origins argument) the Big Bang can easily be included. They basically say, that every effect must have an earlier cause or network of causes that brought the event about. This means that the chain goes back forever (infinite regress)  or there must be an original cause, a First Cause and this First Cause, or as Aristotle calls it in his argument: a First Mover, is thought to be God.

The Big Bag theory does not answer why there is something, rather than nothing or where it existed, if it was the only thing in existence and if it just 'appeared' or if it was the end of something as well as the beginning of something else.

The fist Pope to endorse the Big Bag theory was btw the one in the 1950.

swag.