Does Darwin's theory of evolution contradict Catholicsm?

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Evolution has perfect timing, pollen evolved just in time for the bees…ain’t that sweet !!!
Bees are evolved wasps, and wasps are evolved ants. Both ants and wasps were around a long time before pollen. The arrival of pollen opened a new ecological niche, and some wasps evolved to fill that niche and exploit the new food source.

If your source did not explain that simple process to you, then your source is misinforming you, either through ignorance or deliberately lying. Either way you need to find a better source.

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Some bacteria recovered from ice core samples from Antarctica were found to be resistant to certain modern antibiotics. I wonder how they “evolved that ability.”
Why would you expect an ancient bacteria to be susceptible to an antibiotic designed in the current times?
 
And Eukaryotes split into 7 organisms ?
Look at your diagram again. Porifera (sponges) have already split off before your diagram starts. Then the Cnidaria (jellyfish) branch off. The next split is the Protostome/Deuterostome divergence before the Marinoan glaciation. All the other splits are similar: one clade diverges into two separate clades.

The diagram is obviously simplified. Chordates are not the only type of Deuterostome. Hemichordate worms and starfish (Echinoderms) are also Deuterostomes.

Life is a nested hierarchy within the “Life onEarth” kind. Think about people living on the American continent. There are three large groups: North Americans, Central Americans and South Americans. North Americans are split into USAnians and Canadians. USAnians are split into Texans, New Yorkers, Californians etc. The smaller groups are nested within the larger groups.

It is the same for living organisms. Humans are nested within Mammals, Tetrapods, Chordates, Deuterostomes and Eukaryotes.

This is basic Evolution101. Do you not understand what it is you are arguing against? If you want to successfully argue against something, you need to understand it thoroughly.

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And Eukaryotes split into 7 organisms ?
Look at your diagram again. Porifera (sponges) have already split off before your diagram starts. Then the Cnidaria (jellyfish) branch off. The next split is the Protostome/Deuterostome divergence before the Marinoan glaciation. All the other splits are similar: one clade diverges into two separate clades.

The diagram is obviously simplified. Chordates are not the only type of Deuterostome. Hemichordate worms and starfish (Echinoderms) are also Deuterostomes.

Life is a nested hierarchy within the “Life onEarth” kind. Think about people living on the American continent. There are three large groups: North Americans, Central Americans and South Americans. North Americans are split into USAnians and Canadians. USAnians are split into Texans, New Yorkers, Californians etc. The smaller groups are nested within the larger groups.

It is the same for living organisms. Humans are nested within Mammals, Tetrapods, Chordates, Deuterostomes and Eukaryotes.

This is basic Evolution101. Do you not understand what it is you are arguing against? If you want to successfully argue against something, you need to understand it thoroughly.

rossum
Where was these Eukaryotes located on the earth before the first split ?
 
Where was these Eukaryotes located on the earth before the first split ?
They were living in two parts. Look up the history and origin of Mitochondria. You might also usefully study Endosymbiosis.

Currently you seem like someone who says: “I’ve never read the Bible because I know it is wrong.” You seem to be saying, “I know evolution is wrong, so I’ve never bothered to study it.”

You can only know that evolution is wrong after you have studied it to enough depth to know what it says, not what lying YEC websites tell you it says. That is about as useful as learning about Christianity from atheist websites.

rossum
 
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And Eukaryotes split into 7 organisms ?
Look at your diagram again. Porifera (sponges) have already split off before your diagram starts. Then the Cnidaria (jellyfish) branch off. The next split is the Protostome/Deuterostome divergence before the Marinoan glaciation. All the other splits are similar: one clade diverges into two separate clades.

The diagram is obviously simplified. Chordates are not the only type of Deuterostome. Hemichordate worms and starfish (Echinoderms) are also Deuterostomes.

Life is a nested hierarchy within the “Life onEarth” kind. Think about people living on the American continent. There are three large groups: North Americans, Central Americans and South Americans. North Americans are split into USAnians and Canadians. USAnians are split into Texans, New Yorkers, Californians etc. The smaller groups are nested within the larger groups.

It is the same for living organisms. Humans are nested within Mammals, Tetrapods, Chordates, Deuterostomes and Eukaryotes.

This is basic Evolution101. Do you not understand what it is you are arguing against? If you want to successfully argue against something, you need to understand it thoroughly.

rossum
I finish reading the link you gave me, at least it was honest when it used words like may and possibility. :

Developmental changes may help explain, for example, how some hoofed mammals evolved into ocean-dwellers, how water plants invaded the land, and how small, armored invertebrates evolved wings.
intermediate form

There are several ways such complex novelties may evolve:

Advantageous intermediates: It’s possible that those intermediate stages actually were advantageous, even if not in an obvious way.

This ability might have been advantageous for an organism with no vision at all and could have evolved through natural selection.

Co-opting: The intermediate stages of a complex feature might have served a different purpose than the fully-fledged adaptation serves.

The environment may have offered opportunities for specialization.
A fragmented environment might make reproductive isolation likely.
The environment may have provided a release from competition with other insects.

This possibility can make it difficult to conclude that evolution has happened rapidly.
 
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Look at your diagram again. Porifera (sponges) have already split off before your diagram starts.
So, Eukaryotes out of the blue, just morphed into sponges, and also what did the sponges eat?
 
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I finish reading the link you gave me, at least it was honest when it used words like may and possibility.:
Yes it does. That is the way science works. If something is 100%, then science says is and must. If it is 99% or less, then it says may and possibly. Look at the referenced papers to find the actual percentages, together with their margins of error.

If you are claiming 100% for your views, then you are going to have to show evidential support for that number, and a zero margin of error.
So, Eukaryotes out of the blue, just morphed into sponges, and also what did the sponges eat?
What part of the word random in “random mutations” do you have a problem with?

Sponges are alive today, and it is easy to find out what they eat. Hint: unicellular organisms were around long before sponges. Was that really so difficult to work out?

rossum
 
No, the first sponges that came about from “random mutations” what did they eat ?
OK, a biology lesson. I’m sorry if this is boring, but it is obviously needed.

Sponges are multicellular eukaryotes. That means they evolved from earlier single-celled eukaryotes. Amoeba are an example of a single-celled Eukaryote. Hence, when the early sponges evolved there were already a lot of single-celled eukaryotes around. In addition there were Eubacteria and Arche, both all single-celled.

The first sponges ate those various single-celled organisms.

I am glad that you are asking questions. That way you will learn more about the subject.

rossum
 
To my fellow Catholics. If you went through High School, you were taught this theory. Ask yourself: Is it true? What is it useful for? And even though there are similarities with this organism and another one, that does not prove one “evolved” into something else. Look at dogs. Different sizes, shapes and even different cranial structures. So, why aren’t we being instructed about quantum entanglement or dark matter? Why the focus on Biology? Not just this thread but a lot in the past. Why?

Fact: In science it doesn’t matter if a religious or nonreligious person discovers something. And because that is a fact, why are people constantly bringing this up to us? Why?

Fact: Evolution has no practical purpose. You will be able to live your life - unchanged - whether you believe it or not.

Fact: This is about getting 100% acceptance. Why? To convince everyone that ONLY natural, non-God forces created all living things. Especially Christians.
 
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The gross ignorance of your YEC sources is showing here. “Bugs” are metazoans, with more than one cell. The very first material life was a single cell, not a Metazoan. It took billions of years for the first metazoans to evolve, in the Precambrian.

Why do you rely on sources that are so ignorant? Quoting them just makes you appear ignorant.
Bugs and critters - generic terms which include unicellular life forms. Unless you have a PhD in biology, you would not be familiar with these very sophisticated and very scientific terms.

For your information I once dated a Metazoan - she was not a “single cell”, but a single human being.
 
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What is it useful for?
It is useful for undermining the authority of Scripture, sowing doubts in the minds of believers, and for promoting atheism.
Why the focus on Biology?
Because biology is linked to the creation of life. Invent a theory of biology that does away with the need for a Creator and you’re gone a long way to getting rid of the need for God altogether.
 
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Mammals evolved from reptiles. Crikey. I wonder how a line of reptiles evolved a mammary system?
 
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Maybe he started out with just couple of volts and bluffed the rest.
Way, way before even one volt could be produced, millions of tiny mutations would be necessary, none of which would confer a survival advantage. So these mutations accumulated as a result of pure chance. Yep, a machine that generates electricity can evolve by sheer luck. Apparently, this is science.
 
You are given an example of a transitional creature - a fish that can breathe air and walk on its fins, and all you can say is that Goddidit.
Unless a lung system is 100% intact, it is useless, so a partially-evolved lung system wouldn’t confer any survival advantage. In other words, you believe a complete lung system evolved in a fish as a result of pure chance. I may as well believe in fairies as believe that.

What evidence is there of any ancestors of the lung fish with partially-evolved lungs and “fin-feet”? There is none? Oh, how surprising.

The lung fish is not one of your mythical “transitionals”; it is just a very strange critter created by God. Truth is stranger than fiction.
 
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