Who Said That?

Who Said That?

 “This clash (between evolution and creationism) is an absurdity because on the one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”

Please leave your guesses in the comments section below.  Please no google searches! 

Update on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 08:32AM by Kim Riddlebarger

These comments come from Pope Benedict XVI (Reuters, July 26) as he reflected upon the debate between creationism and evolution.  Benedict did go on to say that evolution falls short of answering “the great philosophical question `where does everything come from?”'

The Pope would benefit greatly from reading Fuz Rana's Who Was Adam?  Genetics will eventually kill evolution as a viable theory of origins.

Comments

[SV]

Okay, Meg and I are reading this quote over and over and we still don't get it.
Hmmmm, evolution enriching...well,it might make one more loving to the lower creatures.Animals are people too after all.
Or since we are here only for awhile we could step on everyone as we try to make our lives more enriching;-)
As for who said it, we aren't in the know.
Did he even say what the "other hand" was?

[Wayne Rohde]

Maybe it's the man with one hand ... and no brain.

[RKBrumbelow]

Everybody's fav. "infallible one" Joe Ratzinger

[Charles S]

I guess we who hold to creation don't know any better because we belong to "defective" churches... Pope Benedict the whatever

[max]

john paul said something similar

[Jugulum]

I'm going to guess the Pope, though I have to confess that I think I read something a couple days ago about it.

[Alberto]

Did Warfield lean towards or affirm evolution as being consistent with the Bible? I ask because Wikipedia's entry on him states that he was a convinced theistic evolutionist. Could the Lion of Princeton have said this?

[Mike]

the Pope

["lee n. field"]

Too many people. Richard Dawkins would be the obvious guess.

On the other hand... who's that theistic evolution guy at Calvin College?

[vox reformata]

Howard J. Vantill is the proffesor at Calvin College.

[Albert]

El Papa!!!

[pilgrim]

JP2 at least said something real similar.

That is, if this isn't him.

[Calloused Grace]

Sound like Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion

[Calloused Grace]

Oh Wow! Some are saying the Pope! JPII?

[Timotheos]

Carl "Now-I-Know-Better" Sagan?

[Mike Ratliff]

How about John Shelby Spong?

[Bob S]

Al Gore. OK, I doubt it was Al Gore. My other guess is the Pope.

[Tod Samuelson]

I like the suggestion of the one-handed monster.

[Pat]

Reminds me of some statements I've read by Emil Brunner. Could be a lot of different people though. Most people believe in evolution.

Part of me suspects it could be Warfield, since he was an evolutionist, and I imagine the quote isn't going to be from an obvious source. Maybe C.S. Lewis. Or Alister McGrath.

[Dave Hunt]

R. C. Sproul?