You keep saying this, but I can guarantee you that from the perspective of the individuals in the pews, the Pope is only infallible when his ideas agree with an individual's views. Before the Catholic Church accepted evolution as the best view for the diversity of life, many Catholics had already began to mix this concept in with their theology, prior to waiting on the infallible Pope to change his mind. So, in reality it is only on paper that the Pope is considered infalliable.
Ask a lot of the Right wing Catholics right now how infallible they feel the Pope is on his recent denouncment of trickle-down economics and you will get an answer that shows you the Catholic population does not obey every statement issued by the Pope to be true. It is written down that way because it is a holdover from the ancient Catholic church, when claiming infallibility allowed them to issue statements and punishments that gave them the means to ensure control.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. - Issac Asimov
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-endthe person will die. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
What would Buddha do? Nothing! What does the Buddhist terrorist do? Goes into the middle of the street, takes the gas, *pfft*, Self-Barbecue. The Christian and the Muslim on either side are yelling, "What the Fuck are you doing?" The Buddhist says, "Making you deal with your shit. - Robin Williams
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