Humani Generis on Evolution: Reading It Completely and Consistently

Catholic evolutionists point to Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani Generis as their Magna Charta for professing belief in macroevolution. However, it is no such thing. A complete, careful and consistent reading of the document shows that Pius XII was no friend of evolution. He clearly saw the danger it presents to the Catholic faith. He begrudgingly gave permission to scholars to study the notion of the human body coming from 'preexisting living matter,' but his permission was very restricted. He explicity withheld permission for Catholics to hold evolution of the human body as a fact, and he upheld the historical truth of the first eleven chapters of Genesis.

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