[meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 19 22:26:28 2005
Message-ID: <0a9f01c5a52e$75969a50$6502a8c0_at_GerryLaptop>

WOW! here's open mindedness.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Classen" <trifid_at_timewarp.de>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???


> 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
>
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