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Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism???the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"?as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 cautiously left the door open regarding polygenism, pointing out that it "apparently" was not consistent with church doctrine on original sin. But Jesuit Francis McCool of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome says that "the scientific evidence for polygenism seems to have increased," and he feels that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIBLE:THE BELIEVERS GAIN | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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