Pope accepts big bang theory

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110106/sc_nm/us_pope_bigbang

The pope accepts the big bang theory! I find it pretty stupid how the church will end up accepting all the advancement made on how we were created...

I find it pretty stupid how the church will end up accepting all the advancement made on how we were created...shadow13702

Is that dumber than not accepting it?

I bet he has the hots for Penny too.

I'm fairly certain that the Big Bang theory initially proposed by a Roman Catholic priest

How convenient.

I find it pretty stupid how the church will end up accepting all the advancement made on how we were created...

shadow13702

Why? The Big Bang Theory doesn't disprove any god.

This is not news. Hell, the Big Bang theory was formulated by a Catholic priest. :|Theokhoth

I bet he has the hots for Penny too.

Lto_thaG

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

I bet he has the hots for Penny too.

PernicioEnigma

Is Catholicism getting more progressive with every pope or what?CRS98

[QUOTE="CRS98"]Is Catholicism getting more progressive with every pope or what?cd_rom

yet another reason to not be a CatholicSilenthps

[QUOTE="thegerg"]

[QUOTE="Silenthps"]yet another reason to not be a CatholicSilenthps

Haha. Why would this be a reason not to be Catholic?

Pretty sure many catholic religious figures have accepted big bang theory for quite a while now. [QUOTE="Silenthps"]yet another reason to not be a Catholicferrari2001

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]This is not news. Hell, the Big Bang theory was formulated by a Catholic priest. :|cd_rom

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]Pretty sure many catholic religious figures have accepted big bang theory for quite a while now. [QUOTE="Silenthps"]yet another reason to not be a CatholicSilenthps

looks like the church is loosening up

it still doesnt disprove that god didnt create the big bang or discredit them though

It's not ignoring scientific truths. The Big Bang and Evolution are theories based upon the presupposition that God didn't create the world Silenthps

[QUOTE="cd_rom"][QUOTE="CRS98"]Is Catholicism getting more progressive with every pope or what?Theokhoth

[QUOTE="cd_rom"][QUOTE="CRS98"]Is Catholicism getting more progressive with every pope or what?Theokhoth

this is true about Catholics

my dad is Christian though and when i go to his church quite a few refuse to believe the Big Bang theory

[QUOTE="Silenthps"]It basically starts out by saying "well since the Bible is wrong, lets find out what really happened."

thegerg

No, "it" doesn't.

ps-WTF do you mean by "it"?

It's not ignoring scientific truths. The Big Bang and Evolution are theories based upon the presupposition that God didn't create the world 10,000> years ago. It basically starts out by saying "well since the Bible is wrong, lets find out what really happened." It's backwards from the start and no christian should support such nonsense

Silenthps

*sigh* That's completely untrue. If you look at the people who originally opposed the big bang theory, it was atheists who were disturbed by the supposed implications of the universe having a beginning (i.e. the cosmological argument).

Now I have to ask a question; how do you scientifically justify the concept of the universe having a beginning while simulatneously rejecting the big bang theory?

[QUOTE="thegerg"]

[QUOTE="Silenthps"]yet another reason to not be a CatholicSilenthps

Haha. Why would this be a reason not to be Catholic?

As opposed to a bearded man in the sky who created everything in seven days, gave us free will only to drown most of us for not believing in him and who helps baseball players win matches instead helping starving people in third world countries?

EDIT: Six days*

He needs a nap after all that hard work.

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"][QUOTE="Silenthps"]woops, it cut off the rest of my post after world since i used the less-than sign, I re-edited it. Silenthps

Good for him, I actually quite pleased that the church is accepting well established science. I don't mind if they want to believe that God was the grand designer or anything like that, that's just their interpretation, as long as they don't try to contradict science.

The Catholic Church is becoming more and more liberal on its teachings (i.e accepting evolution and accepting the use of condoms in extreme circumstances) which is a surprising to me as I initially thought that Benedict XIV wanted Europe to return to conservative Catholicism.

I guess it's good that I have been proved wrong on this point.

The Catholic Church is becoming more and more liberal on its teachings (i.e accepting evolution and accepting the use of condoms in extreme circumstances) which is a surprising to me as I initiallythought that Benedict XIVwanted Europe to return to conservative Catholicism.

Vesica_Prime

[QUOTE="Silenthps"][QUOTE="ferrari2001"] Well considering the universe was created almost 13 billion years ago and the planet earth millions and millions of years ago your re-edited post still does not contain any validity. ferrari2001

[QUOTE="Silenthps"]It's not ignoring scientific truths. The Big Bang and Evolution are theories based upon the presupposition that God didn't create the world 10,000> years ago. It basically starts out by saying "well since the Bible is wrong, lets find out what really happened." It's backwards from the start and no christian should support such nonsense

-Sun_Tzu-

*sigh* That's completely untrue. If you look at the people who originally opposed the big bang theory, it was atheists who were disturbed by the supposed implications of the universe having a beginning (i.e. the cosmological argument).

Now I have to ask a question; how do you scientifically justify the concept of the universe having a beginning while simulatneously rejecting the big bang theory?

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"][QUOTE="Silenthps"]woops, it cut off the rest of my post after world since i used the less-than sign, I re-edited it. Silenthps

people like you are why I generally hate the uber religeous. it's not enough to say "With all due respect I disagree". no no no, you gotta point a finger and say that we're wrong, and you are beyond the shadow of a doubt right.

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"][QUOTE="Silenthps"] The big bang/evolution doesn't provide the best explanation of the world. It provides an atheist an incredibly flawed and anti-scientific explanation of the world. Christians already have an explanation of the world thats actually factual, aka that God created it in 6 days. The fact that supposed christians are now rejecting the true explanation of the world for a really bad one is quite sad. Silenthps

Except for all the evidence that says the universe is billions of years old....