[meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???
From: Norbert Classen <trifid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 17 08:29:31 2005 Message-ID: <200508171230.j7HCUa1T019688_at_ev1.craft.de> Hi Sterling, Martin & All, Martin H. wrote: > The question has risen: > > > I wonder why the RC church would have such a > > huge collection of items which contradicts > > their doctrine that the universe is only > > 6,000 to 10,000 years old... > > Does anyone have a reference for the assumption that > "their doctrine" actually addresses the age of the > universe? I guess that assumption stems from the movie "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy, based on the legendary ape trial, and the screenplay by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Major Brady, the proponent of the anti-evolution fraction, gives an exact date of the creation of the universe in this plot; if I recall it correctly it was a "Thursday", some 5,700 or so years ago ;-) Certainly not the official doctrine of the RC church, but I know quite a lot of contemporary RC priests, preachers, and officials who are saying essentially the same... Sterling responded (sorry for quoting you out of context, Sterling): > That unfortunate business with Galilleo was, well, > unfortunate... There are reports that many prelates, > including the Pope, were delighted with the Big Bang > theory's wide acceptance, for obvious reasons. A created > universe? Didn't we always say so? Yeah, and while Galilleo has been reinstated by popular demand (sic!), people such as Giordano Bruno are still "burning in hell", at least if you follow the official agenda of the RC church. Now, if we would actually find traces of (former) life in martian meteorites, or on Mars missions, the official agenda would surely change, provided that there will be another paradigm shift, and enough popular demand to "convince" them. There. So it's no real change of attitude, it's just "survival of the fittest", what leads us back to Darwin, and "Inherit the Wind"... Enough said, Norbert Received on Wed 17 Aug 2005 08:28:51 AM PDT |
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