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“Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving” quote by Carl Sagan — Download Open image

““Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving””

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“The Creation of the World or Omniverse is the Creation or Recreation of the Absolute itself through the two poles, two “sides” of its Self, the Being and the Nonbeing. Without the creating, everything is the Nonbeing. Creating is the Savior of the Absolute and the Being. Otherwise, everything transforms into absolute Nothingness or Nonbeing. Since creating is the recreation…

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All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies…

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God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including…

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The big bang made the foundations for the 1st atoms

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