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Our common ancestors are apes? Or, were we created in God's image, fully man and woman? What was he thinking?
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=3053
New York Cardinal Says Adam & Eve May Have Been Lower Life Forms
NEW YORK (CWN) - Cardinal John O'Connor of New York said in a homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday that Adam and Eve may have been not quite human.
"It is possible that when the two persons we speak of as Adam and Eve were created, it was in some other form, and God breathed life into them, breathed a soul into them -- that's a scientific question," Cardinal O'Connor was quoted as saying in Monday's New York Daily News.
The cardinal's comments come a month after Pope John Paul told a group of scientists that, as a hypothesis, evolution may have some validity as long as it recognizes God as the ultimate source and motivator of life and creation. volutionCardinal O'Connor said he does not expect his comments to cause any change in New York's Catholic school curriculum that already teach evolution, but added that schools might emphasize the "spiritual dimension" more, along with the role God played in creating the human soul, which distinguishes man from animals.
The Church continues to reject any notions of social Darwinism that says only the powerful are fittest for survival in modern societies, the cardinal added.
The two "PERSONS" were created in some other form? How's that?
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=3053
New York Cardinal Says Adam & Eve May Have Been Lower Life Forms
NEW YORK (CWN) - Cardinal John O'Connor of New York said in a homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday that Adam and Eve may have been not quite human.
"It is possible that when the two persons we speak of as Adam and Eve were created, it was in some other form, and God breathed life into them, breathed a soul into them -- that's a scientific question," Cardinal O'Connor was quoted as saying in Monday's New York Daily News.
The cardinal's comments come a month after Pope John Paul told a group of scientists that, as a hypothesis, evolution may have some validity as long as it recognizes God as the ultimate source and motivator of life and creation. volutionCardinal O'Connor said he does not expect his comments to cause any change in New York's Catholic school curriculum that already teach evolution, but added that schools might emphasize the "spiritual dimension" more, along with the role God played in creating the human soul, which distinguishes man from animals.
The Church continues to reject any notions of social Darwinism that says only the powerful are fittest for survival in modern societies, the cardinal added.
The two "PERSONS" were created in some other form? How's that?