It is important to point out that it was St Thomas Aquinas who laid the conceptual foundations for the rise of modern science, as the Protestant Alastair McGrath has pointed out. Catholicism was the seedbed of modern science. Galileo could not prove the heliocentric model and yet he insisted he was right. This was the cause of the conflict. It was only a mathematical hypothesis to begin with. And yet the Galileo affair is brought up over and over again by ignorant atheists.
It is important to point out that it was St Thomas Aquinas who laid the conceptual foundations for the rise of modern science, as the Protestant Alastair McGrath has pointed out. Catholicism was the seedbed of modern science. Galileo could not prove the heliocentric model and yet he insisted he was right. This was the cause of the conflict. It was only a mathematical hypothesis to begin with. And yet the Galileo affair is brought up over and over again by ignorant atheists.
The 'THEORY' of Evolution.
There is no _a priori_ contradiction between the notion of creation and evolution by natural selection.