What if the Church supported Darwin's theory of evolution, especially after the works of Champollion (decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Hutton (father of modern geology) proved that Earth is older that the six millenia many read out of the Bible?
Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs and could proof that the Egyptian civilizations was older than the time many thought that the Deluge happened. Hutton could proof that geological processes are very slow and thus Earth had to be created long before 5508 BC (the year calculated out of the Bible).
(BTW the Big Bang theory was developed by Abbé Georges Edouard Lemaître, a roman catholic abbot.)
Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs and could proof that the Egyptian civilizations was older than the time many thought that the Deluge happened. Hutton could proof that geological processes are very slow and thus Earth had to be created long before 5508 BC (the year calculated out of the Bible).
(BTW the Big Bang theory was developed by Abbé Georges Edouard Lemaître, a roman catholic abbot.)