Does the Pope's Statement regarding the Big Bang End the God Debate?
Today's USA Today ran an article entitled " Pope says evolution, Big Bang are real " in which he seemed to give a pretty strong statement of support to Theistic Evolution. The Pope reportedly said: "When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so," Francis said. "He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment." I am certain that there are some who will witness this as a caving in of the Vatican to the arms of scientific naturalism. They will note that the Pope, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledged that the Biblical account of creation found in Genesis 1 and 2 has been proven wrong by science. Of course, that view is short cited. It assumes that there are only two ways of understanding the evidence for the universe...