[extropy-chat] Prelate: Catholicism incompatible with neo-Darwinism.

[Damien Sullivan]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:17:18PM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:

> Thomas' view was an enormous step forward for the Catholic Church, and
> the accepted truth for a long time afterwards. So then if one wishes

I had the impression this goes back to St. Augustine and his own looking to
Aristotle, with the soul coming in at 40 or 90 days after conception, and
later penitentials giving lesser penalties to early abortion than later.  (The
Church never approved of abortion, but early abortion was considered birth
control, not as bad as murder.)

-xx- Damien X-)