The record of papal support for evolution

Pretty comprehensive-seeming record of Popes arguing that God and evolution are compatible. The record goes back about four popes, to at least as far as 1950.

Sometimes I have these narrative voiceovers on top of the standard buzz of thoughts. They will have the character of little moments, where I'll realize things like "This thought is strange and novel, and so is the experience of thinking it." I had one while reading the Popes' words when I realized that your typical red-state religious American is more conservative on evolution than any of the last four Popes of the Catholic Church. That is crazy.