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Pope Francis said on Monday (October 27) that the Big Bang does not contradict the " intervention of God" as a creator, rather it requires it.
The Pope was speaking to members of the Pontifical Academy of Science who met to discuss "The Evolving Concepts of Nature."
"The beginning of the world is not the work of chaos that owes its origin to something else, but it derives directly from a supreme principle that creates out of love. The Big Bang, that today is considered to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the creative intervention of God, on the contrary, it requires it," Pope Francis said.
The Pope said also evolution does not rule out God's creation.
"Evolution in nature is not in contrast with the notion of creation because evolution requires the creation of the beings that evolve," Pope Francis said.
God gave autonomy to the beings he created, and they went on for thousands of years until they becam
