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The current Pope is cool with evolution. I think this is a common view, especially among religious scientists. Only some people think evolution is incompatible

• eric_the_read 9y ago
  Not that you're wrong, but this isn't exactly news. St Augustine, back in the late 4th century/early 5th, was "cool" with evolution, if you care to use those words: "Th[e] tree surely did not spring forth suddenly in [a mature] size and form, but rather went through a process of growth with which we are familiar. …[It] took its shape as it [gradually] developed with all its parts. … One [form of tree] comes from the other [form of tree], therefore, in succession, but both come from earth and not earth from them. Earth, then, is prior and is their source. The same is true of animals." (http://www.historyandapologetics.com/2015/02/st-augustine-on-evolutio.html http://www.historyandapologetics.com/2015/02/st-augustine-on...) While he didn't think that a new genus could arise in this way, he was pretty clearly on the right track, especially given the rather sketchy knowledge on the subject of biology in his day.