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In reply to the discussion: Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark [View all]RVN VET
(492 posts)was told by the nuns that evolution did not run counter to Catholic theological thinking. In fact, i think a 19th century pope actually described Darwin's theory of evolution as not incompatible with the faith. (Excuse me, I mean "the One True Faith." Sorry, Sister Perpetua Marie!)
(Lest you think the Church was truly embracing of knowledge: the infamous "Index" was still very much in force at the time and works such as Gibbons History of the Fall of the Roman Empire was actually forbidden -- at least until sometime after John XXIII was installed. The professor of a history class I took at a Catholic college had to get a special dispensation even to quote from it!)
Evolution was never ever ever an issue in my religious education. There were a lot of other reasons I ultimately left, but the Church said I was OK if I accepted the scientific theory of evolution as the fact that it so clearly is.