Re: Newspapers & **Dinosaurs**

[kaesler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Roger L. Kaesler)]

Neal Evenhuis wrote:>

"Actually, I'm VERY surprised that the "Catholic" church would
consider 11,600 year old bones as "dinosaurs". Remember, the real
fundamentalists have to deal with the fact that existence as we know it>was
not older than 4,400 B.C. Maybe the church is getting a bit lax
and>allowing a "few" more thousand years for evolution to have taken
place."

Evolutionists need to know who their allies are.  The Roman Catholic Church
officially accepted the doctrine of organic evolution early in this
century, I believe 1908.  My understanding is that they accepted most of
the corollaries along with it:  old earth and all that.  There is a lot of
objection to evolution coming from fundamentalists, but a great many
religious leaders are on our side!

Roger L. Kaesler

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