Pope John Paul II (1996) affirmed evolutionary theory in his message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, but rejected it for the human soul, which he saw as the result of a separate, special creation.
The Church of England publicly endorsed evolutionary theory (e.g., M. Brown 2008), including an apology to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theory.
That was very condescending.
And ignorant too! Darwin was a dud.
Evolution is a fact, organisms adapt and evolve, or go extinct. The theory of evolution refers to the mechanisms and means of evolution.
