(CNET) — Arguments around creation and evolution sometimes seem too similar to "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
Science and religion get placed on either side of a spectrum, with a section in the middle for those who'd like to hedge their bets.
On Monday, the pope outlined his belief with respect to God and evolution. Speaking to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis insisted that there was no reason to believe that God and evolution were somehow incompatible.
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It's just, he suggested, that God came first.