(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19

[James Wynn]

> Though the scientific model of the universe, including the Big Bang
> and evolution, is not "accepted" in the sense of being something the
> Catholic church teaches as doctrine, it is, believe it or not, heretical
to
> deny it on the basis of the first bit of Genesis. The argument is a bit
> subtle, but basically, the ideas is that Genesis teaches that God created
> the world, but to insist that He had to do it _that way_ because the
> book says so is to limit God's freedom to create however He chooses.
> This is not to say that Catholics can't believe in seven-day creation if
> they choose. They just have to have better evidence, or at least they
> can't deny that God might have done it the other way if He wanted to.

I wasn't aware of that, but I still repudiate the generalization and I've
never met a Protestant that denied the laws of Thermodynamics.

~ Crush