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Darwin Theory of Evolution has been proven scientifically

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Anglican clergyman: Church owes Darwin an apology

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...n_N.htm?csp=34

LONDON (AP) — The Church of England owes Charles Darwin an apology for its hostile 19th-century reaction to the naturalist's theory of evolution, a cleric wrote on an Anglican website launched Monday.

The Rev. Malcolm Brown, who heads the church's public affairs department, issued the statement to mark Darwin's bicentenary and the 150th anniversary of the seminal work On the Origin of Species, both of which fall next year.

Brown said the Church of England should say it is sorry for misunderstanding him at the time he released his findings and, "by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand (Darwin) still."

The Church of England said Brown's statement reflected its position on Darwin but did not constitute an official apology.

The church's stance sets it apart from fundamentalist Christians, who believe evolutionary theory is incompatible with the biblical story of the Earth's creation.

Darwin was born into the Church of England, educated at a church boarding school and trained to become an Anglican priest.

However, his theory that species evolve over generations through a process of natural selection brought him into conflict with the church.

The Church of England did not take an official stance against Darwin's theories, but many senior Anglicans reacted with hostility to his ideas, arguing against them at public debates.

At an Oxford University debate in 1860, the bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, famously asked scientist Thomas Huxley whether it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed to be descended from a monkey. Critics included the Rev. John Stevens Henslow and Adam Sedgwick, both scientists who had taught Darwin at Cambridge. Sedgwick wrote that he found some of Darwin's ideas "utterly false and grievously mischievous."

Brown said that from a modern perspective, it was hard to avoid the thought that the reaction against Darwin was based on what would now be called the "yuck factor ... when he proposed a lineage from apes to humans."

Brown called for a "rapprochement" between Christianity and Darwinism.

The bishop of Swindon, Lee Rayfield, who also is an immunologist, said religion and science were not mutually exclusive.

He said he opposed Christians for whom "evolution is equated with atheism" as well as Darwinists who felt ideas about evolution "completely undermine any kind of credibility for God."

"That's completely wrong," he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "It's a false polarization."
 

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Scientists have actually acknowledge that the age of the earth, it relatively closer to the biblical time-frame of thousands of years.


1. If the Bible is 100% factually accurate, then the Universe is not billions of years old.
2. The Universe is billions of years old.
3. Therefore the Bible is not 100% factually accurate.

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The realigned position of Catholic Church endorsing Evolution:

Pope Pius XII: "The Catholic Church accepted that the theory of evolution was a valid scientific inquiry"

In 1996 Pope John Paul II gave a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in which he said "Today, almost half a century after publication of the encyclical, new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.

In recent years, Benedict XVI has stressed the traditional Catholic notion that there is simply “no incompatibility between faith and reason,” including philosophy and the sciences.
 
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