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Thread #159228   Message #3772400
Posted By: GUEST,Dave
13-Feb-16 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gravity solved?
Subject: RE: BS: Gravity solved?
Pete, Thomas Aquinas predates evolution by 600 years, and its deniers by 700. Evolution is but one issue, a symptom or focal point for the current generation. Aquinas' point was that reason and rationality were not at variance with Christian thought. For this he was condemned by Etiene Tempier. However the church in subsequent generations reaffirmed its belief in Aquinas' theology, not that of those who condemned him. Popes Pius V and Leo XIII affirmed this in encyclicals.

Creationists reject rational thought, they are the Tempiers of the present day. All sorts of nonsense comes out of creationist institutes, such as Setterfield's variable speed of light theories in a vain attempt to preserve Bishop Ussher's estimate of the age of the universe. Easily refuted by observation and experiment. And all of this creationist nonsense is rejected not only by science, but by every mainstream church.