Nothing more than that? Just a history book? Well, OK. I thought there might be some theology involved. Strange that the account is included in the Easter Vigil readings, which I understand have some deeper significance than just a bit of history.
I didn’t say specific to birds. I said birds, mammals and reptiles, and had in mind the fact that it lays eggs. A mammal that lays eggs.Aulef:
A platypus does not have any features specific to birds – merely a superficial resemblance in the upper jaw. It is a genuine transitional, showing features from Therapsid reptiles (egg laying) and mammals (hair, single jaw bone and milk).
rossum
However where there SEEMS to be an apparent conflict between Faith and Reason , then faith supersedes reason. Remember that the human intellect has been darkened by sin .
The thing is, Aulef, there’s been this other thread on Evolution which has gone over its 2000-post limit five times. And in ten thousand comments, it’s fairly obvious that most Creationists have no knowledge of evolution to start with, and no interest in finding out any more. The fact that you have to ask “Is this fossil an example of a transitional animal” illustrates this very well. If you knew anything about evolution you wouldn’t have to ask, and if you were at all interested in finding out any more you could have Googled it and read far more than anybody could explain here.
Sure I would believe archaeopteryx was a transitional form if you could find archaeopteryx version 2.2…2.3…2.4… 2.5… 2.6… 2.7… 2.8…2.9…etc…etc…etc…but it ain’t gonna happen.
I take the view God intervenes in creation as little as possible. This allows us to study the natural world without resorting to ‘magic’ and so that when God does intervene (the resurrection of Jesus, Adam’s soul) it is more miraculous than if God kept intervening all the time in mundane matters.
Evolution kills everything off that was unfit.
True, but we need the sun – and the earth, and its rotation! – to know that one day is 24 hours…Glark:
Nor do we. 24 hours is 24 x 60 x 60 = 86400 seconds, and a second is defined as “the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.”
No mention of the sun there.
rossum
Ah, but the Church does not see an inherent conflict between Faith and evolution, or Genesis and evolution.
The Church is comprised of every member. The Church has not commanded its members to switch off their minds. Its darwinists like yourself and others who are feverishly trying to force their irrational dogma onto humanity
The irony is killing me.
I know, right?
Really, Aulef, you’re simply illustrating my point. Instead of asking these rather naive “trick questions”, why not look up “platypus evolution” on Google?
yepcatholic1seeks:
The Church is comprised of every member. The Church has not commanded its members to switch off their minds.
It’s already happened. When Darwin wrote the Origin of Species there were no fossils that could have connected reptiles to birds, even though a sensible speculation suggested there ought to be. Archaeopteryx was found soon after it was published, and since then literally hundreds of fossils of animals with both reptile and bird characteristics in various proportion have been, and are being, discovered.