You know how on Sunday mornings, there are a lot of Protestant services televised?  Well, one of them caught my ear.  It was James Kennedy on Coral Ridge Ministries, and he was preaching about how evolution and creation are completely incompatible, and that the two can never co-exist.  He went on to say how coming from a green sludge (ie. primordial soup) is an insult to us being made in the image of God.  Lots of what he was saying would probably seem ridiculous to most of the non-religious.  Admittedly, I have to agree that what he was saying seemed too backwards and nonsensical.  Kennedy even had his huge congregation pray to God that evolution be destroyed. 

I've posted this before on a previous post, and I'll say it again here:  Catholics do not teach that creation and evolution are completely incompatible.  In fact, evolution is a highly acceptable theory, provided that God is acknowledged as the ultimate prime mover of evolution.  Remember, Catholics do not interpret the Bible in a literal word-for-word manner as other religious denominations will.

See James Kennedy's anti-evolution sermon here: http://www.coralridge.org/medialibrary.asp?mediaId=3506

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Fr. Roderick's down-to-earth explanation of creation & evolution deserves mention here.  Listen to the following podcast by Fr. Roderick of SQPN.com and you will find his explanation of the Catholic Church's stance on evolution quite clear and to the point.  Fast forward the podcast to 15:10 for Fr. Roderick's talk on Catholics and creation/evolution, it goes up to about the 32:00 point.  Listen to that whole segment, it's very interesting!

Daily Breakfast podcast #342: http://www.sqpn.com/?p=1652