Pope Francis' belief in evolution, Big Bang 'inconsistent with God's Word,' says Ken Ham
Christian fundamentalist and Young Earth creationist Ken Ham criticized Pope Francis' views on the theories of evolution and the Big Bang being compatible with how the world was created from a Biblical perspective. He claimed that the pope was contradicting the world of God by saying so.
In a recent Facebook post, Ham asserted that denying the Big Bang does not make God a "magician," as Francis pointed out, quoting Luke 1:37 in writing, "For nothing will be impossible with God."
He also cited Exodus 20:11 in reminding that God created the world in six days.
Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 2014, Pope Francis made controversial comments that bridged scientific and biblical assertions on how the word came to be.
According to Francis, scientific theories do not contradict the idea of a creator. "When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so," the pope said, adding, "The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it."
This is not the first time that Ham adversely reacted to the pope's comments on the theory of evolution and the Big Bang. In 2014, Ham wrote an article published on the Answers in Genesis website, in which he stated, "Pope Francis, like so many other religious leaders, is putting man's word above God's Word. And not only that, he's also going so far as to say that only a magician with 'a magic wand' could create the way that God said He created in Genesis!"
For centuries, the Catholic church has had a reputation for being anti-science. Looking back in history, Galileo was forced to take back is "heretic" theory that the earth revolved around the sun.
Pople Pius XII, John Paul II, and Pope Francis were the ones noted to have warmed up to the idea of evolution and the Big Bang theory.
Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, had an entirely different view. The former pope endorsed the idea that natural selection is not enough to explain the complexity of the world.
