Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws

Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by clock_tower on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @10:04PM (#12793358)

What you're seeing is US Southern Protestant fundamentalism: an evolutionary dead end (is that why they deny evolution?), which would never have come into being in the first place were it not for Henry VIII, William Cecil, and John Knox -- and Cardinal Richelieu taking the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War.

Look at a more serious religion, and you'll see better results: Scholastic Catholicism, or the Mu'tazili and Ash'ari schools of Islam, or almost any form of Buddhism.

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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by flukus on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @10:11PM (#12793380)

Catholics reject evolution too:

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/adam-eve-and-evolution

Catholic doctrine is to deny random mutation (god is twiddling bits manually) and insist adam and eve were real. That along with a host of other silly stuff the believe (virgin birth).

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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by throwaway1892 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:53AM (#12794927)

Well, that page states "Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time."

And for Adam & Eve : "[The Church] allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms"

So it's not the case.

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