Re: Evolution and Salvation

From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 21:21:29 EDT

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    Thanks for the clarification. Although not a Roman Catholic, I find this
    outlook to be the most satisfying that I have heard.

    Walt

    Richard.Kouchoo@firstdata.com.au wrote:

    > >>>I tend to treat the story of Adam and Eve as more than a total allegory
    > and Ibelieve that "good and evil" were placed in mankind via a direct
    > interaction with god. This, for no other reason than it makes some sense to
    > me. Of course Glenn would argue that the timing is all wrong.
    >
    > I believe that the RC church takes a position like that with respect to
    > evolution.<<<
    >
    > Just to clarify the matter, the RCC takes the position that soul, imbued
    > with the knowledge of good and evil, was specially and instantaneously
    > created (and still is everyday when a new human being forms in the womb),
    > Pius XII, Humani Generis 36.
    >
    > No allowance for the 'evolution' of the soul - and therefore moral
    > knowledge - is made. And I don't see how it could be. 

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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>

    In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)

    You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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