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THEISTIC EVOLUTION
Mr. Swaggart apparently does not agree with most Christians of the major denominations, who, in the face of overwhelming evidence, accept the reality of evolution without abandoning their faith. This is called theistic evolution. Some 18 years after his election, even Pope John Paul II finally allowed as how...
fresh knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis.
Perhaps the Pope was mindful of the actions of one of his predecessors, the “infallible” Pope Urban VIII, who sentenced Galileo to a life of house arrest for daring to agree with Copernicus that the earth is not the centre of the universe, and in fact all the planets, including the earth, revolve around the sun.
From the moment Darwin published his theory in 1859, religious adherents have opposed it because, in their minds, evolution “dethrones God.” For some 70 or 80 years after Darwin’s theory was published, most people—even biologists—refused, on various religious and moral grounds, to consider that Darwinian natural selection might be right. Philosophers held out even longer, until the middle of the 20th Century.