Tag: Faith and science

VATICAN (CNS): Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera of Valencia, Spain, made headlines when he described as…

The priest, who also taught paleoanthropology and paleobiology, noted that Catholic teaching says God created all things from nothing, but it doesn’t say how, which leaves open the possibilities of evolutionary mechanisms like random mutation and natural selection.

Pope St. John Paul II said faith in God the creator and a “correct teaching of evolution” are not at odds and “evolution, in fact, presupposes creation.”