{"id":5982,"date":"2005-07-09T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/07\/09\/by-the-way-thanks-god\/"},"modified":"2005-07-09T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T15:58:05","slug":"by-the-way-thanks-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/07\/by-the-way-thanks-god\/","title":{"rendered":"By the way, Thanks God!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An influential cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, which has long been regarded as an ally of the theory of evolution, is now suggesting that belief in evolution as accepted by science today may be incompatible with Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

The cardinal, Christoph Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, a theologian who is close to Pope Benedict XVI, staked out his position in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Thursday, writing, "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense – an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection – is not."<\/p>\n

In a telephone interview from a monastery in Austria, where he was on retreat, the cardinal said that his essay had not been approved by the Vatican, but that two or three weeks before Pope Benedict XVI’s election in April, he spoke with the pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, about the church’s position on evolution. "I said I would like to have a more explicit statement about that, and he encouraged me to go on," said Cardinal Schönborn.<\/p>\n

He said that he had been "angry" for years about writers and theologians, many Catholics, who he said had "misrepresented" the church’s position as endorsing the idea of evolution as a random process.<\/p>\n

Opponents of Darwinian evolution said they were gratified by Cardinal Schönborn’s essay. But scientists and science teachers reacted with confusion, dismay and even anger. Some said they feared the cardinal’s sentiments would cause religious scientists to question their faiths. [Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

If your a religious scientist that believes we came about via a totally unguided and random twist of fate than I would suspect that he has already lost his faith. Now as I have said before, however God brought us into existence I am down with. Now there is a part of me that would like to see it all wrapped up in a simple package. For example finding a giant name plate that said "Created by God" in some wondrous before unknown material. Something that once and for all would be an undeniable proof that we are creatures designed by our creator. Though in many ways God has already done this and the universe shouts to us of design and it is only the earwax of modernity that prevents many from hearing it.<\/p>\n

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements — surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, `Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’? "Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
\nand caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal,
\nand it is dyed like a garment. From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken. "Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
\nor walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?Declare, if you know all this.<\/p>\n

But as God rebuked Job, I just say thanks God and however you did it is fine with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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