Reply #74: Popes don't care what SCIENTISTS say. [View All]

[Liberator_Rev]

Young_at-heart,
When you say,
"Can't the scientists tell them it's biological? . . . There must be a few Catholic people who study scientific journals, etc.",
you're assuming that Catholics who have scientific knowledge should be able to influence the Pope. Here's an excerpt from my web site, which shows how utterly baseless the claims of "the Holy Fathers" of the Catholic Church are:
"After Galileo gave one of his newly invented microscopes to his friend, Pope Urban, and the pope had marvelled at a world he had never known existed, the pope said to Galileo concerning the new book Galileo had just published about how the sun, rather than the earth is the fixed center of our universe: 'You may have irrefutable proof of the earth's motion (around the sun).  That does not prove the earth actually moves. . .  God is above human reason and what seems perfectly reasonable to men may prove folly to God.' Urban went on to say that he, as pope, was responsible for the salvation of souls.  Sometimes scientific discussion imperilled souls.  The Copernican system, unless taken as a pure mathematical device, might cast doubt on Scriptures.  Should that happened, he would have to take steps to stamp it out.
        Because the pope had read in the bible that the sun "comes up" and "goes down", the pope knew that Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo (and any number of other scientists) couldn't be right about the earth revolving around the sun, instead of the other way around.See much, much MORE at http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/PopesvsChrist