MR. BERGOGLIO speaks on evolution. As usual, he specializes in contradictions and incoherence. God creates all things and yet he is not magic. God directed biological change and yet gave “autonomy” to beings. Evolution (popularly understood as the appearance of life forms through random mutation) is “not inconsistent with the notion of creation.” Let me suggest that this confusion is intentional. I have highlighted the remarks that support the Darwinian mechanistic view:

“When we read in Genesis the story of Creation we risk imagining that God was a magician, complete with a magic wand that make everything. But (this) is not so. He created beings and let them develop in accordance with the internal laws that He has given to each one, because they emerged (or developed) themselves; they arrived themselves at (their) own fullness. He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time in which he assured them of his continued presence, giving the beings to all reality. Thus, the creation has been going on for centuries, millennia and millennia until it became what we know today, because God is not a demiurge or a wizard, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. The beginning of the world is not the work of the chaos that has another of its origin, but is derived directly from a supreme Principle that creates with love. The Big Bang, which today stands at the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine creator’s intervention but demands it. Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”

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