Such a statement is clearly ludicrous in the light of what we know about evolution, but for me makes a lot more sense than the normal Catholic line that evolution is compatible with Christianity. I've never had anyone give a satisfactory account of exactly how evolution is compatible with Christianity, which of course doesn't mean it isn't, just that I haven't heard the logic; maybe there isn't any logic, maybe its one of those "it is, because I say so" kind of things that the theological mind specialises in. For me the inescapable problem with evolution and Christianity is that if evolution is true then Adam, Eve and Eve's original sin is untrue, if those entities didn't exist then there was no fall and no paper trail that leads to vicarious redemption.
Here's what the Pope actually said,
"If man were merely a random product of evolution in some place on the margins of the universe, then his life would make no sense or might even be a chance of nature," he said. "But no, reason is there at the beginning: creative, divine reason."
So close ratty, so close, you almost landed on the most likely truth to this conundrum, but then had to spoil it by inserting your God of the gaps at the end, oh well, back to the chocolate.
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Why are people so fixated on a reason? Cause and effect are only applicable within spacetime. Before the big bang there was no spacetime - so God alone knows (if you'll forgive the expression) what can 'cause' something (or nothing) to happen there (or nowhere) or then (or not then).
CB, I know, it's depressing to witness human reason falling to such depths, as you say all the evidence points to there being absolutely no reason whatsoever, I think therefore I am, as someone much cleverer than me once said, I'm happy with that.
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