Yesterday, Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, said that Darwinian evolution is real, and so is the Big Bang, according to the Telegraph.
“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.
As io9 pointed out when Francis was first anointed, the new Pope's quasi-heretical claim isn't anywhere near the first of its kind.
The church first brought evolution into the fold in 1950 with the work of Pope Pius XII, writes io9.
[I]n fact, the Roman Catholic Church has recognized Darwinian evolution for the past 60 years.
But the Church’s unique take on the theory, what it calls theistic evolution, still shows that Catholics have largely missed the point.
Evolution is fully autonomous process that does not require any guiding “rationality” (Benedict’s term) to function. »
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