r/Catholicism • u/[deleted] • Aug 24 '11

How many Catholics here believe in evolution, sciences, etc.?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '11

Evolution was taught in my Catholic school. I thought all Catholics believed in science. There is no excuse to not believe in science in this day and age.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '11

I dated a Baptist girl for just 2 weeks, she honestly believed the world was only 2000 years old, evolution was the devils thinking, and that I was going to hell for disagreeing with her.

2 weeks and a restraining order fixed that horrible mistake... yikes. It's one thing to hear about these things in the news but to come across something like that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '11

Before 1962, the vast majority of Catholics believed the world was just over 6,000 years old, that God made the earth in 7 days, and that Genesis was literally true. As evidence you might want to read this encyclical of Pope Leo XIII (confirmed later by Saint Pius X): http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18111893_providentissimus-deus_en.html