An idle thought before sleep.
Scoured the forums I haunt and found this thread over at William Gibson’s forum and saw a link to yet another article on the Church espousing views that are anti-Darwinian.
Not an interesting article, but the views therein are old hat, revised and repeated ad nauseam. Not that I have any disrespect for the Church’s position on evolution and intelligent design, though; while I was active, it’s one of the many topics I followed avidly. As it is, I’m woefully out of date on the current discussion refering to arguments from design; the last I remember, and this is only the nominal position, is that an intelligent designer without pretense to divinity is warranted, but not God himself. Which is fine, I suppose, given the Church’s position on revealed truth vs. science.
I’m quite leery of rehashing old questions, but Pope Benedict’s declaration, in that article, that each being is a thought of God, is loved and is necessary struck me as either being overtly optimistic or just plain deluded.
But we are talking about religion, here…
Ya, ya, we’re all a participation in and of the essential being, of God but not divine, but with a divine nature, a participation of being… there was a period when I reached the limit and just tossed books about in disgust.
I wanted to leave a thought before I slept, but have decided late nights are best left to sleep and not brooding.
