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Catholic Church has no official teaching on the age of earth. Atheism has always existed, it just may have been more or less visible depending on the political
by xivzgrev 2y ago
Catholic Church has no official teaching on the age of earth.
Atheism has always existed, it just may have been more or less visible depending on the political climate.
Even long ago when people worshiped ideas like Thagwag the rain god[0], there were probably non believers - are we so arrogant as to assume they didn’t exist?
“Hm we pray every day, sometime rain sometime not. Maybe no Thagwag?”
[0] made up
- defrost 2y agoLike the Catholic Church Thagwagism also has no official teaching on the age of the earth. These nuggets have little bearing on the proposition: > There was an article recently about how it was the discovery of dinosaur bones that really began the shift away from organized religion. which may or may not be true. There was a general belief that Biblical interpretations gave a limited age to the earth, famously "calculated" in various ways by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, James Ussher and John Lightfoot. Deep geological time ran counter to that common belief.
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- onlypassingthru 2y ago>Catholic Church has no official teaching on the age of earth. Interesting. That may be one reason why a Catholic priest came up with the Big Bang.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre