Does Darwin's theory of evolution contradict Catholicsm?

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Your average priest would be flat-out even spelling “evolution”, let alone discussing it in-depth!
 
Techno2000 said:
If God used evolution to create with, why didnt the Church fathers pickup on this in the bible and write about it.
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Evidently, God didn’t pick up on it either - there is not an iota of evidence in the Bible about evoluion. There is however, lots of evidence for six days of creation. Golly gosh, I wonder which one of theses two competing ideas wants us to believe?
 
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Techno2000:
If God used evolution to create with, why didnt the Church fathers pickup on this in the bible and write about it.
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Evidently, God didn’t pick up on it either - there is not an iota of evidence in the Bible about evoluion. There is however, lots of evidence for six days of creation. Golly gosh, I wonder which one of theses two competing ideas wants us to believe?
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One would think St. Thomas Aquinas would have figured it all out. 😉
 
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Notice how each creation performed during the six days is prefaced by “And God said…” There is no “And God said …” In verse 1. Observe the pattern
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A pattern? As in… a poem? 🤔
 
Gorgias said:
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Glark:
Notice how each creation performed during the six days is prefaced by “And God said…” There is no “And God said …” In verse 1. Observe the pattern
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A pattern? As in… a poem? 🤔
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I remember reading some private revelation where the Virgin Mary said that the Bible is so true that it shouldn’t even be kept by other books.
 
ChunkMonk said:
The majority of the people are well-intentioned, I can only assume, but just confused by the vagueries and the general malaise of our time. We are now heading into the fifth century of concerted, coordialnated assault against real theological reasoning and metaphysics, all with the singular aim of destroying in the faithful any ability to think critically about their faith. A wild success so far, if one looks at the results. Empty churches and emptier souls.
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I think the tolerance of evolution is part of the the Modernist plague that has spread to the Church from the Enlightenment.

But fear not, the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.
 
Apparently Thomas Aquinas wasn’t smart enuf to see evolution in the Word. A primitive and intellectualy unsophisticated soul, poor Thomas.
 
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BL Rembordt (18th century).

"God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like the birds. But they will laugh at the idea of God, thinking that they are ‘very clever.’
 
I didn’t realize patterns were confined to poems.

If you can’t accept a literal interpretation of Genesis, then your chances of understanding my version of it are zero. Someone who takes Scripture seriously might give my theory a fair hearing, but not an anti-creationist like you.

I know from my dealings with the folks at Biologos that theistic evolutionists have next-to-no-interest in taking Scripture seriously; so it’s a waste of trying to reason with such people. You’d feel right at home on that site - they can’t stand creationists either.
 
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Techno2000 said:
BL Rembordt (18th century).

"God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like the birds. But they will laugh at the idea of God, thinking that they are ‘very clever.’
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“Claiming to be wise, they became fools” - Romans 1:22
 
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Techno2000:
BL Rembordt (18th century).

"God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like the birds. But they will laugh at the idea of God, thinking that they are ‘very clever.’
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“Claiming to be wise, they became fools” - Romans 1:22
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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

1 Corinthians 1:27
 
Glark said:
Evidently, God didn’t pick up on it either - there is not an iota of evidence in the Bible about evoluion. There is however, lots of evidence for six days of creation. Golly gosh, I wonder which one of theses two competing ideas wants us to believe?
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And neither view of the details of creation contributes to the salvation of souls. So I suggest He doesn’t seek our belief in either!
 
Glark said:
Which part do you disagree with, and why?
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The part where you say “it’s all literal”! 😃 And why? Because the Church says it need not be read literally. Because the truths of salvation do not lie in those “literal details” but in what you find summarised in the Catechism. And because right reason recognises that there is tangible evidence that life on earth evolved over more than 5-6000 years and there is no reason to think God planted that evidence to fool us.
 
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Glark said:
A literal reading of Genesis makes a mockery of Scripture? Do explain!
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Try again to understand what I wrote. What you assert definitively (that evolution makes a mockery out of Scripture) is merely your opinion (one rejected by the Church) and you should be sufficiently responsible to point that out.
 
Natural Evolution is the best way to distribute potentiality without discriminating against the actuality of any form in particular.

God creates with his love, and thus while God wills the existence of intelligent beings he does not discriminate against the existence of other forms. God wills all potential existence but does not will one over the other; God does not discriminate. Therefore, natural evolution is the best way to distribute potentiality without discriminating against the actuality of any form in particular.

You could call this the natural theology of evolution.

The point i’m trying to make is, instead of arguing against evolution we should be trying to understand it within the frame work of God’s creative act. In other-words we should do philosophy and entrust science to the scientists…

To do anything else would be to indulge in some kind of grand conspiracy theory. This skepticism against the scientific community about their intentions towards religion is unhealthy and is damaging to the pursuit of knowledge. And that is precisely why i’m not a young earth creationist or an intelligent design theorist.

Have Faith!
 
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