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Roger Stanyard writes:
Unlike you? You seem to be pointing to particular forms of creationist thought and insisting that only they can properly be called "creationism".
The Catholic church permitted belief in evolution in a 1950 encyclical Humani generis iossued by Pius XII. Before that standard Catholic teaching -- as I keep telling you -- was that God had created humans in their current form. If you can point me to any official Catholic statement of Doctrine that endorses evolution before that 1950 encyclical then please do so.
The Catholic position permitting belief in evolution has later endorsed by John Paul II. But note that even now it is a grudging acceptance, they don't endorse evolution, just permit belief in it. See for example: http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp
You mean that one form of it developed from there. The word "creationist" is far broader than your take on it.
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