{"id":14364,"date":"2014-10-29T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jh.southloophvac.com\/?p=14364"},"modified":"2014-10-29T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:45:43","slug":"francis-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/francis-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis, Augustine and Evolution (Inlcuding Breaking Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html\">This article<\/a><\/strong> on Francis endorsing evolution is getting tossed around everywhere like its another cave-in at Rome.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychurch.org.uk\/pdf\/book_wood.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51DHSmHtvML._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite part is how the secular media (a bunch of communication majors) confidently\u00a0comments on a topic, apparently\u00a0without\u00a0looking at existing Church commentary beyond 3 years time. They remain\u00a0confident in continuing a cadence of Francis breaking tradition (contrary to Benedict &#8211; who also actually stated the same&#8211;as did John Paul II before him) when it doesn&#8217;t make sense to look at doctrine this way&#8230;ever..yes, even to Francis. It doesn&#8217;t evolve &#8211; and didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">To this point, St. Augustine of Hippo in 3rd century wrote &#8220;On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis&#8221; which asked this very question and came to the same conclusion &#8211; it does not need to be interpreted literally- but it is without error. Darwin just contributed the mechanics, but can hardly be credited, as he often is as a &#8216;revolutionary&#8217; challenger of old stagnant ideas. Catholics have allowed but never endorsed a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis &#8211; nor officially endorsing evolution. I haven&#8217;t been able to find an English translation but take a look at Augustine&#8217;s work, over 1200 years before Darwin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>English:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychurch.org.uk\/pdf\/book_wood.pdf\">http:\/\/www.earlychurch.org.uk\/pdf\/book_wood.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Original Latin:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustinus.it\/latino\/genesi_lettera\/index2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.augustinus.it\/latino\/genesi_lettera\/index2.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also, if you are going to read a book on evolution and how it sythesizes with Catholic religion, let <strong>this<\/strong> be it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 29 OCT 2014:<\/strong> Pope Francis has also endorsed forces of Electromagnetism, read about it here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeofthetiber.com\/2014\/10\/28\/pope-francis-says-forces-of-gravity-and-electromagnetism-are-real\/\">http:\/\/www.eyeofthetiber.com\/2014\/10\/28\/pope-francis-says-forces-of-gravity-and-electromagnetism-are-real\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE II 29 OCT 2014:<\/strong> Finally somebody in the secular media (Time Magazine) has an epiphany about this! Thank you!\u00a0<a class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3545844\/pope-francis-evolution-creationism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-reactid=\".15.1:3:1:$comment10152583013619160_10152584285434160:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$range1:0\">http:\/\/time.com\/3545844\/pope-francis-evolution-creationism\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article on Francis endorsing evolution is getting tossed around everywhere like its another cave-in at Rome. My favorite part is how the secular media (a bunch of communication majors) confidently\u00a0comments on a topic, apparently\u00a0without\u00a0looking at existing Church commentary beyond 3 years time. They remain\u00a0confident in continuing a cadence of Francis breaking tradition (contrary to [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[141,87,3,104,10],"class_list":["post-14364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-augustine","tag-evolution","tag-faith-and-reason","tag-pope-francis","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/0104Saint_Augustine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}