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Pius XII and the Theory of Evolution: What Was It Really Like?

Pope Pius XII nowhere in his encyclical "Humani generis" endorsed the concept of species transformation. In the text of the document itself, he calls the theory of evolution "unproven" in the natural sciences. He condemns those for whom "the literal sense of Holy Scripture and biblical hermeneutics [...] should give way, according to their misleading ideas, to a new exegesis called symbolic and spiritual."

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Pius XII and the Theory of Evolution: What Was It Really Like?

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