. . . about Evolution this time, thus putting an end to all the wild speculations about Darwin’s shabby old theory, at least as far as it might pertain to the Roman Catholic Church. I think he said that the organization has clearly not evolved one bit since Copernicus announced that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of what we could see. The church did not hear Copernicus but it did hear two of his contemporaries, Bruno and Galileo. Bruno was burned at the stake and Galileo was imprisoned for the remainder of his life. Odly, Galileo was rehabilitated into the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Benedict (this was Benedict the14th, not the current Benedict) a hundred years afer his death. I don’t think poor Bruno was even mentioned.
We apparently see evidence of parallel universes at work. Evolution may or may not be working in certain places but it never happens in other places. There seems to be little doubt that evolution is steadfastly at work in the natural world for example, but it never begins to happen in other places – like the Roman Catholic Church for example. The Pope spoke, and that is that. Or at least until say, Pope Benedict 38th or so might speak up some day in the distant future.
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