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Pope Francis is visiting the US and people are excited, but what if science is your religion?
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How should YOU feel about Papa Francis?
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In the 1950s, Pope Pius the Twelfth wrote that he hoped evolution would "prove to be
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a passing fad," BUT that it doesn't contradict faith as long as "ensouling" of humans was
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left to God. Pope John Paul the second said in a 1982 book, that evolution was an "effectively
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proven fact." AND More recently, Pope Francis said God isn't a magician, and creation lasted
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millions of years while the evolutionary processes played out. And yet, a 2014 Gallup poll found
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42 percent of the American people believe the world was magically created in 7 days,
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and that we hold dominion to destroy it as we wish… This kind of makes you wonder what
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religious leaders are really teach us about science…
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The Catholic church has long been party to the scientific community. In the mid-1700s,
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Pope Benedict the Fourteenth formed academies of science, art and religion, and the Big
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Bang was originally proposed by Georges Lemaître - a Belgian Cosmologist and Catholic priest!
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Some religious people are definitely science bros. More recently, Pope John Paul the Second
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wrote in a letter to the Vatican Observatory, a Church-run telescope dedicated to astronomical
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research, "Science can purify religion from error and superstition," that "Molecular biologists
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have probed the structure of living material," showing the, "unity of nature." And with this
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in mind, "Simple neutrality is no longer acceptable," keeping religion and science exclusive from
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one another "fosters a fragmented vision of the world."
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JPII was all SCIENCE AND RELIGION NEEDTA BE BROS, and that was back in 1988! Religious
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institutions have spent centuries trying to learn more about "God's Creation" through
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science. Even celebrated scientist Galileo Galilei was offered a place in the Pontifical
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Academy of Science back in 1610! Of course... the Roman Inquisition later imprisoned him
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for attempting to reinterpret the Bible, but good times come and go for both science and
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religion.
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Before joining the Catholic establishment at 32, Pope Francis was called Jorge Mario
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Bergoglio and he was much like you or me. He worked as a bouncer in a nightclub, and
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went to a technical school in Buenos Aires, graduating with something akin to an associate's
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degree as a chemical technician! POPE FRANCIS IS DOWN WITH SCIENCE TOO.
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Earlier this year, Pope Francis issued a 98-page plea to all the bishops of the Roman Catholic
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Church to stop climate destruction. He commented that Christians should care for the environment
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and admitted that humans affected our changing climate, saying, "most global warming in recent
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decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases." But, that wasn’t the
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first time he made a huge splash in the political and scientific communities!
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In 2014, Pope Francis said, in a conversation with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, “Evolution
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in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the
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creation of beings that evolve." He went on to say there is evidence for evolution and
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it is a "reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life." He also
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remarked that the Big Bang is "considered to be the origin of the world." He was clear
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when he said, these ideas are NOT contradictory to God or the teachings of the Church. This
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is the Pope, guys.
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When this happened, there were some collective heads exploding across the spacious skies,
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amber waves of grain, and on the purple mountain majesties… because a select group of Americans
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have long rallied against these exact messages! And yet, here's a religious leader, acknowledging
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and accepting them.
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Perhaps the surprise that a Pope would come out in favor of science, is exacerbated by
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the fact that only 20 percent of people in a 2013 Pew study knew nitrogen was the most
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abundant gas in our atmosphere; and only 58 percent knew CO2 causes rising temperatures.
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Perhaps it's because americans don't science good.
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Despite his more progressive views on climate change and evolution, Pope Francis' alignment
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with the Church on contraception, expanding roles for women, and allowing priests to marry
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hasn't budged.
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So, whether Pope Francis the most scientific Pope is a solid 'maybe.' Yes, things have
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changed in the last century, but the Church has definitely been SCIENTIFICALLY FRIENDLY
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for a few hundred years. Instead, I think, as we've become a more polarized culture;
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we're simply more surprised to hear agreement with scientific facts from such a powerful
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religious leader.
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His outspoken views on science aren’t the only things that make Pope Francis stand out.
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For more on what makes this pope different from the others, check out this video from
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our friends at Test Tube news.