Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' -Genesis 1:6
"And the LORD God said, 'The man has now become like one of us, '" Genesis 3:22
(Mistakes in the Bible, Christians are monotheists: they will only believe in one God)
The Bible: Infallible...but not impeccably literal.
Catholics (Roman, Orthodox and Anglican) have always been motivated by truth. The Church has endorsed, funded and supported scientific progress, they've historically been at the forefront of science. As soon as Darwin found the evolutionary theory in his ''Origin of Species, and backed it up with evidence, Pope Pius XII stated that it correlates with Christian theology. An Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, is known as the ''father of modern genetics'' (he is seen as a heretic among fundamentalist Christians).
Priests and monks have dedicated their lives to questioning the world and the universe. We believe that God obviously didn't reveal everything in the Bible (what about black holes, galaxies, natural selection, genes, chromosomes, super nova, asteroids, extraterrestrials, the big bang, atoms, neutrons, protons, electrons, dark matter, the Higgs boson...), that there is more to everything than just a book! God has hidden away things for us to find, for us to discover and make do with.
It would be blasphemous to reject hard scientific evidence, for we are denying God's creation in this way! Enough about conspiracy theories and alternate beliefs, let's just accept the truth! Whenever I hear about a scientific discovery, my heart jumps for joy since I believe we are getting closer to God by finding more about His universe, thus respecting Him even more.
Indeed, Catholics maintain a belief in Transubstantiation; the bread in the Eucharist is changed into flesh when consumed. This cannot be proven in chemistry, there is no way to prove that its chemical properties change since the atomic numbers of the elements in the bread remain the same. However we do not go door-to-door urging you all to believe this, the Eucharist is a very private matter which is only practiced behind the doors of the church.
Flame me if you will, God gave me the gift of freethought for a reason...
"And the LORD God said, 'The man has now become like one of us, '" Genesis 3:22
(Mistakes in the Bible, Christians are monotheists: they will only believe in one God)
The Bible: Infallible...but not impeccably literal.
Catholics (Roman, Orthodox and Anglican) have always been motivated by truth. The Church has endorsed, funded and supported scientific progress, they've historically been at the forefront of science. As soon as Darwin found the evolutionary theory in his ''Origin of Species, and backed it up with evidence, Pope Pius XII stated that it correlates with Christian theology. An Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, is known as the ''father of modern genetics'' (he is seen as a heretic among fundamentalist Christians).
Priests and monks have dedicated their lives to questioning the world and the universe. We believe that God obviously didn't reveal everything in the Bible (what about black holes, galaxies, natural selection, genes, chromosomes, super nova, asteroids, extraterrestrials, the big bang, atoms, neutrons, protons, electrons, dark matter, the Higgs boson...), that there is more to everything than just a book! God has hidden away things for us to find, for us to discover and make do with.
It would be blasphemous to reject hard scientific evidence, for we are denying God's creation in this way! Enough about conspiracy theories and alternate beliefs, let's just accept the truth! Whenever I hear about a scientific discovery, my heart jumps for joy since I believe we are getting closer to God by finding more about His universe, thus respecting Him even more.
Indeed, Catholics maintain a belief in Transubstantiation; the bread in the Eucharist is changed into flesh when consumed. This cannot be proven in chemistry, there is no way to prove that its chemical properties change since the atomic numbers of the elements in the bread remain the same. However we do not go door-to-door urging you all to believe this, the Eucharist is a very private matter which is only practiced behind the doors of the church.
Flame me if you will, God gave me the gift of freethought for a reason...