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Ah thanks. I hadn't realised that. I knew there was a bit of Vatican Press Office damage limitation but I didn't realise the Pope bit was false.

Winter's a bit chilly where I am at the moment so it's good to know the fires are still being stoked !

You might want to go troll somewhere else, Maxx. You lower the discussion.

BTW this was a HOAX. Neither Pope Francis, nor the RC Church, said any such thing.

I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Here's a brief overview of our Christian beliefs: http://bit.ly/1ukr3HX

Ah my apologies. I have jumped to the conclusion that because you are a theist on these boards you are a Catholic. Can you elaborate on where you sit in the general area of Christian theologies and religions ?

Because, obviously, they're Antichrist.

So why did the Church teach it for so long?

Nonsense.

Except for the reality that the myth “that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form"(this fiction: http://bit.ly/18b2Jxe http://bit.ly/12K0jnv) is shorn of any demonstrable , quantifiable , empirical , testable or replicable evidence . The reasoning here is this requires millions upon millions of years - which absolutely no one has actually observed since , well , it needs millions upon millions of years. Nevertheless the fossil record , which ought to demonstrate a string of infinitesimally progressive adjustments from one being to another over a course of millions of years , reveals the complete opposite . . . but it’s anticipated that ( one day , someday ) the “missing” fossils of those intermediate species are going to eventually be discovered . In short , the only evidence for evolution is the presumption of evolution ...