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The Pope on Creation

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While the stories of the creation of the world and of the fall of humankind have often given rise to conflict - some Christians twist the Bible into science and history while rationalists approach this issue by "divorcing God from creation" - Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) presented the Catholic middle ground between extremist positions in explaining the vitality of these early Old Testament writings in his book:

In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation



You can click the book to read a sample.

Question: Who has read this book, and what was your opinion?
 

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It was interesting. It's unfortunate that it stopped at page 42 at the subject of human creation.

I did note that evolution is accepted. That is quite surprising. (Evolving from previous life forms?)



http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp
 
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Certain aspects of eveolution are acceptable, although a Catholic is free to accept or reject this.

But evolution out of nothing is not acceptable. The Church teaches that God created everything out of nothing.
 
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