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Voltaire2

(12,626 posts)
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 09:26 AM Nov 2017

Dept. of WTF and Who Knew: "Vatican Council Asks The Pope To Exonerate Jesuit Scientist's Writings"


This past week, leaders at a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Culture in Rome formally requested that Pope Francis lift the official disclaimer of the Catholic Church against the writings of the influential priest-scientist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955).

Teilhard's writings were only published after the paleontologist's death in 1955. But by 1962, when the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the monitum, or warning, his posthumous works had attracted a large following.

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Controversy has always surrounded Teilhard. He was not allowed to publish by his Jesuit superiors during his lifetime, and it was partly because of his ruminations on the implications of evolution for Catholic doctrines like Original Sin, that Pope Pius XII issued his 1950 encyclical Humani Generis, reaffirming the necessity for Catholics to accept the belief that all human beings alive are descended from an historic Adam and not from a founding population of humans, which is the consensus of science today.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2017/11/24/vatican-council-asks-the-pope-to-exonerate-jesuit-scientists-writings/#6e180fc545e8
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Dept. of WTF and Who Knew: "Vatican Council Asks The Pope To Exonerate Jesuit Scientist's Writings" (Original Post) Voltaire2 Nov 2017 OP
Thanks for posting about Teilhard bobbieinok Nov 2017 #1
Teilhard worked on Peking Man while in China bobbieinok Nov 2017 #2
I like Teilhard's support for science. Though? Bretton Garcia Nov 2017 #4
Peking Man is a possible human ancestor from China edhopper Nov 2017 #5
I feel that if you can not question your religion or any other religion then it is a false religion Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #3

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
2. Teilhard worked on Peking Man while in China
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 10:55 AM
Nov 2017

Remains disappeared in WWII. Well preserved casts still exist.

Disappearance has been subject of several mystery novels.

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)
4. I like Teilhard's support for science. Though?
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:59 AM
Nov 2017

Didn't the scientific community itself reject his "Piltdown Man"? It was said the remains actually mixed bones of different species? If so, the bones might have been simply discarded.

edhopper

(33,208 posts)
5. Peking Man is a possible human ancestor from China
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 11:27 AM
Nov 2017

Piltdown Man was fake from Britain.

Two different set of bones.

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