Catholics and Evolution concerning Adam

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It came to me that if we can trace Christs Linage back to Adam and Eve
and catholic evolutionists believe that Genesis speaks of not literal days but each day can represent long periods of time say millions of years then how would a catholic evolutionist explain that the 6th and last day of creation clearly shows that Adam was created and lived around 6000 years ago?

I mean why did God not spend Millions of years on Adam? Christ did not have his linage traced back to an ancestor of Adam but to Adam who we know lived around 6000 years ago? Compelling I think.

something to consider with this is the fact that when God created man he also created woman and it clearly tells us in the Bible that NO woman was to be found so God had to create woman.
It seems to me that a catholic evolutionists would have to believe that Adam was not specially made in the Image and likeness of God, and I just can’t understand how some people get around this?
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It seems to me you are taking it all too literally, including the “6th and last day” and the seperate creation of woman…
 
so when was woman created? and why was there no mate before her? simple enough question I would have thought.
edit how long do you think a day was? that’s what i’m looking to find out and how you compare it with the Bible and Chronological facts
 
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Women most likely evolved right along with men. I dont expect any correlation between “days” in Genesis and actual history.
 
What people?
before Adam there were no people, just as God tells us clearly in the text, unless you believe in pseudo science over the word of God ,I can’t see how the two narratives are comparable.
 
As a Catholic how do you explain the text that there was no mate suitable? hence Eve was taken from Man.
Christian Evolutionists tell us that days in Genesis mean millions of years, but that falls apart when it comes to the 6th day as we know Adam lived and died within 1000 years, so that day seems a lot shorter than the rest and we know his linage as he is the father of all living the first man as scripture tells us.
So I suppose the question is how were the first 5 days millions of years but the last day when life explodes the day becomes , well a day? I believe evolutionists call it the Cambrian explosion, where all life appears at once.
I think there is fraud at work.
 
Life is an organism that can replicate its self in it’s own kind.
 
is this your definition of 'all life appears at once, ’ what do you mean by all life? for example all species ,
 
I’m not sure your understanding the question… The proof is the Bible when it tells us Adam was 130 years old when he had seth and I think 930 when he died, so there is the proof we know his age and when he died. the first born of all creation the father of all, the first man and Christ being the first spirit.
 
Yes all species animal and vegetable all organic life came at one time.
 
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What people?
before Adam there were no people, just as God tells us clearly in the text, unless you believe in pseudo science over the word of God ,I can’t see how the two narratives are comparable.
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No, I believe that science illuminates the Word of God, shows us how magnificent His creation is. To ignore the scientific evidence is to ignore a great deal of the knowledge God makes available to us.
 
I’m gathering you’re not Catholic, since this is not what the Church teaches.
 
Well, as I said, I do not expect or looks for any correlation between the poetic accounts in Genesis and actual historic facts. It gives us a wonderful theological statement but hoping to get science or history from it is asking too much of this genre.
 
If you take that the bible from Jesus to Adam walking backwards shows that Adam was created around 6000 years ago, he had seth at the age of 130. That is all the proof anyone needs. You should look at the Cambrian period where it shows all life came to be at the same time.
what you should have stated was that science has no evidence for man being older than 6000 because that is the truth. Old bones and false data can not be used for evidence.
 
I know nothing about your interpretation of Genesis, I know that God created man and when no helper was found he put him to sleep and from his side he created woman, meaning from the womb of man.
There is no poetry here unless you want there to be to cover up the truth with a convenient lie.
Christs geniality does not go back to a father ape it goes back to Adam the first man.
 
My Friend I am Catholic and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the Catholic church does not teach Evolution. Simply it teaches that it is open to findings from science and this too is recent as most past popes denounced it.
I think your referring to a quote JPII was given to read by Vatican Communists.
 
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science has no evidence for man being older than 6000 because that is the truth. Old bones and false data can not be used for evidence.
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Old bones ARE evidence. As are tools, carvings, cave paintings, settlement remains, etc.
 
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