God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope

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[Ye Olde Fart]

The Pope should not be so quick to speak on this topic. One never knews when scientists will find a better theory and change. It has happened through all of history. If this should occur, the Pope will have put his foot into his infallible mouth once more.

[KissandTell]

Hey, that sounds very interesting what the Pope is talking about...

[critical-thinker]

We have evidence for the current scientific theories.

There is no evidence of anything supernatural of any kind,ever.

If science works for space travel,machines,math,medicine, evolution etc, then it works for cosmology/astrology and the Big Bang theory too.It doesn't stop working because some people don't like what it says.

[QUITTNER]

3:02 pm, Friday, January 7, 2011:
RE: God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
..... Just as you and I are, the pope is entitled to his opinions based on (even incorrect?) information available to him. If he is wrong, blame the originators of that wrong information, not the pope, nor God who is (wrongly?) believed to communicate with the pope and tell him what to do and what NOT to do, perhaps even what to say.
..... Science and the scientific methods were born long after the many (still existing?) beliefs and explanations existed. In the old days anything not done by humans, animals or plants had to be done, so the explanations went, by "someone or something" (God or gods, etc.), and the many belief systems, explanations and speculations were born to explain the many "automatic" happenings of nature.

[SFer]

That's one reason I enjoyed Catholic school for 10 years. As Catholics, you were free to believe Genesis as straight reportage. You were also perfectly free to accept the scientific versions of both the Big Bang and evolution, as long as you also accepted each coming from the hand of God.

For me, it was one of the moments when science and religion were successfully reconciled.

[EdmondWA]

Fantastic. Straight from His Holiness The Astrophysicist. Where did he pull this "information" from? Was it the same place the RCC got Purgatory & Limbo from? Or did god send him a faster-than-light communication from beyond the universe's edge this morning?

Sorry to point it out, but acceptance of the Big Bang and evolution means there was no Adam & Eve, and therefore no "original sin", and therefore no need for salvation. A man named Jesus (if he even existed) was crucified with no purposeful consequences for humankind. The scientific view of a naturalistic universe does not allow for the superstitions of religion.

[Sheryl 1]

SFer wrote:

That's one reason I enjoyed Catholic school for 10 years. As Catholics, you were free to believe Genesis as straight reportage. You were also perfectly free to accept the scientific versions of both the Big Bang and evolution, as long as you also accepted each coming from the hand of God.
For me, it was one of the moments when science and religion were successfully reconciled.

I like that attitude :)