"In an exclusive interview, the bishop who heads the Pontifical Academy of Sciences accepts the theory of evolution,
Bishop Sánchez is the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. “If we don't accept science, we don't accept reason,” says Sánchez, “and reason was created by God." “The notion of creation is completely different from the notion of evolution,” said Sánchez. “Creation is a philosophical notion that comes from The Bible. It says that God, from nothing, created being.” That is the central
concept, he said, and science has no real explanation for how that might happen. But evolution is different. There is a great deal of evidence, he said, that there is evolution in nature and that species evolve. Over the years the progress of science has caused many in the Catholic Church to rethink what they thought they knew, like the location of Heaven and of Hell. “In the past, we said they are [physical] places,” Sánchez explained, as if they could be pinpointed on a map of the cosmos. But that was back in the Middle Ages when people believed the universe was organized in spheres with Earth at their center, then the sun and the moon and the stars, and beyond them, Heaven. Hell was under the ground in the center of this planet. Now Paradise and the Inferno are understood philosophically as states of being, not places on a chart." TheDailyBeast
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Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools,
Romans 1:22