Amadan
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| Quote (FloydLee @ Oct. 20 2009,09:13) | | Quote | | Floyd, let it go. No one cares. |
Merely responding to Keelyn, Mr. D. That's all.
Hey, would you be an agnostic like she is? Or an atheist? Gotta be something (other than Christian.) |
That is just a distraction and you know it.
That Catholic Church has addressed evolutionary theory and found it compatible with Christianity:
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I particularly like this one:
| Quote | In modern times the theory of evolution has raised a special difficulty against the revealed doctrine about the creation of man as a being composed of soul and body. With their own methods, many natural scientists study the problem of the origin of human life on earth. Some maintain, contrary to other colleagues of theirs, not only the existence of a link between man and the ensemble of nature, but also his derivation from the higher animal species. This problem has occupied scientists since the last century and involves vast layers of public opinion.
The reply of the Magisterium was offered in the encyclical Humani Generis of Pius XII in 1950. In it we read: "The magisterium of the Church is not opposed to the theory of evolution being the object of investigation and discussion among experts. Here the theory of evolution is understood as an investigation of the origin of the human body from pre-existing living matter, for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold firmly that souls are created immediately by God..." (DS 3896).
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution. But it must be added that this hypothesis proposes only a probability, not a scientific certainty. However, the doctrine of faith invariably affirms that man's spiritual soul is created directly by God. According to the hypothesis mentioned, it is possible that the human body, following the order impressed by the Creator on the energies of life, could have been gradually prepared in the forms of antecedent living beings. However, the human soul, on which man's humanity definitively depends, cannot emerge from matter, since the soul is of a spiritual nature. |
These statements (and there are others) are made with full appreciation of evolutionary theory: you have to credit them with a proper working knowledge of all its scientific ramifications. The situation is not equivalent to that of Dawkins opining (rather pig-headedly, in my view) about Christianity.
Can we move on from this mortally flogged horse now please?
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"People are always looking for natural selection to generate random mutations" - Densye 4-4-2011
JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.
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