Does Darwin's theory of evolution contradict Catholicsm?

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Now, obviously, you can’t logically get from a single ancestor cell to the whole variety of living species with the mutations and variant alleles that are known.
And my take on the whole single cell mutation thing is that there would have to be a second cell mutating into some kind of food to provide for the first cell. And as rossum said, after Photosynthesis that’s it.
 
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No, you’re not the only person who has noticed the flaws.
I know that many people see flaws in the theory, but I was talking about how it is impossible for mutations to have caused the extreme changes in species that evolution theory claims to have happened. Some people point out that the hypothetical mutations have not been discovered and can’t be discovered, but my point is that evolution theory is impossible because there are very few variable expressed traits that are determined by variant alleles. No one else talks about that.

As for Pope John Paul 2, I read somewhere that he did not write the Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences or give it in a speech. And it does not say that Darwin’s theory on evolution is sound.
 
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Not entirely. It says nothing about the origin of the STEM universe, that is cosmology. It says nothing about the origin of the Earth, that is astronomy. It says nothing about the origin of life, that is abiogenesis. It does say a great deal about the origin of species, and about the origin of variants within species.
That’s what I meant - it a theory of the origins of species. Abiogenesis theory is directly related to it, because it is about the origins of living organisms. When people say the origin of life, they mean life in natural things.
Why not? We can observe mutation and selection at work in nature, in the lab and in computer models.
I meant that natural selection and genetic mutation do not create living creatures. Changes in populations and genetic material is not creation of creatures.
 
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I reconcile it the same way that the Church, the bishops and the Popes have done so.
Oh, you mean "reconcile’ as in “ignore”. Judging by your non-answer to my question, I can see you’ve leant this tactic well. (I looked “reconcile” up in the dictionary and it doesn’t mean “ignore”.)

Do you think I should take Cardinal Pell’s lead and contradict Humani Generis by believing Adam and Eve weren’t real people, but “terms”?
 
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Because it also functions as a swim bladder and a stomach. Any surface feeding fish will gulp down a little air into its stomach.
Well before a swim bladder or a stomach supposedly form, the lung fish’s lung system was a little bunch of mutated cells that were too few in number to perform any useful function. How does this useless little bunch of cells confer a survival advantage?
 
So, life from a rock from space begs the question: “Where did that life come from?” No answer.
Panspermia explains nothing … kinda like the theory of evolution really. The moral of the story is, any fantastic explanation for life on earth will do - as long as it isn’t God.
 
If man evolved from apes, how come there are apes still around
The theory says humans did not evolve from apes, but that humans and apes share a common ancestor. This common ancestor is alleged to be some kind of ape-like creature, called a hominid (although I think “monkey-man” sounds much more scientific).
 
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Humbly, I add the teaching I was privileged to receive. There were two specific trees in Eden. The TREEof LIFE and the Tree of the KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. Do not take from knowledge tree. Apple was a symbol of obedience. As parents, if we could raise our kids in a bubble and protect them from evil, we’d be happy. Same for God. Protected area of Eden. Proper rules. The snake slithers in and tempts. Basically, they were shown all knowledge of Satan and God. Once they were contaminated w that knowledge, they lost God’s protection. They’d want to try new things. Today, we have tried most things.
Freedoms were embellished by Supreme Court w pornography being free speech. Burn flag=free speech. Come Lord, Jesus come.
 
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So, then one could apply Techno2000’s Theory of no Food Chain, no Life, and say evolution should have come to a end at this point.
Techo, get with it … there are humans called Breatharians who don’t need to eat any food at all, but survive solely on the energy of the universe. Their usual habit is a mental institution - but they exist. Google it and learn.
 
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So, then one could apply Techno2000’s Theory of no Food Chain, no Life, and say evolution should have come to a end at this point.
Techo, get with it … there are humans called Breatharians who don’t need to eat any food but survive solely on the energy of the universe. Their usual habit is a mental institution - but they exist. Google it and learn.
They must be a breakaway sect of the gluttonarians.
 
Salutations,
After we stopped burning scientists at the stake, the church had this statement. The Church teaches THAT GOD CREATED. Science tells us HOW GOD CREATED.
There was a book, QUESTIONS FOR CATHOLICS IN THE 90’s. First question was there were more than 1 set of Adam and Eve. At first Eve had Cain, then Abel. We asked isn’t that incest? It wasn’t incest when that was all they could do. Eve was busy. I wasn’t smart enough to think of that question. I feel better for the Eve now. I want that book, loaned it out. I’m afraid it’s out there f print.
In Christ’s Love
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I agree with the traditional Catholic understanding of the age of the earth, which is that the earth was created about 6000 years before the birth of Christ. This is what highly educated Christians believed, until the mid 19th century. This belief was included in scientific books and almanacs in the 19th century.
Actually, I think Glark is OK with the Earth (but not the Sun) being billions of years old. Anyway, man’s capacity to discover details of the past including the age of materials is somewhat greater now than then. I imagine man used to have all sorts of ideas about the sun and the stars in times past too.
Apparently, I’m the only person in the world who has noticed this non sequitur about mutations, because no one else talks about it.
Yes, we must conclude that the IQ of scientists must be abysmally low that they continue to make such grave and repeated errors. Or is it an organised program of deception, from which no one will break ranks in search of that elusive Nobel Prize?
 
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A reading of the Midnight Mass for the Solemnity of the Nativity from the Roman Rite says that Christ was born “In the five thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth.”

See the full reading here. Redirecting...
I believe this is a prayer, not a reading of Scripture? Regardless, can you reference this to a Church document as opposed to Facebook? It would be interesting to trace its history.
 
So, life from a rock from space begs the question: “Where did that life come from?” No answer.
I don’t know the soundness of the premise in that statement, but I would note that it is entirely proper for Science to say: “Unknown”. For example: Why did we have a Big Bang? Where did the matter/energy come from ? Answer: “Unknown”.
 
After we stopped burning scientists at the stake, the church had this statement. The Church teaches THAT GOD CREATED
The Church didn’t burn any scientist at the stake. Giordano Bruno was not a scientist, he was a materialist, pantheist philosopher and occultist. He was put to death for promoting theological heresies: that Christ was not God but a magician, that the Holy Spirit is the soul of the world, that the Devil will be saved.
The Church teaches THAT GOD CREATED. Science tells us HOW GOD CREATED.
The Church teaches much more than that God created. It also teaches that God created all things immediately by his own power; that he alone is the creator; that all things are dependent upon him; that he created all things through the Logos, his Son; that God created all things for himself; that the Holy Spirit is the giver of life; that God creates out of nothing; that he created with wisdom an ordered world; that he is present to his creatures’ inmost being; that he upholds and sustains all things in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end; that the solicitude of his divine providence is immediate and concrete; that he is absolutely sovereign over the course of events; that he is the first cause, and he works in and through secondary causes; that he is always the creator.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p4.htm

Scientists give false naturalistic accounts of how things were created.
 
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I have mentioned more than once that evolution has no practical scientific use.
You have repeated it many, many times. I’m not sure why. It is a form of denigration?
“The pope (John Paul) had his reasons for saying this,” Benedict said. “But it is also true that the theory of evolution is not a complete, scientifically proven theory.”
Very true. There are many holes and uncertainties. Does anyone doubt this?
"Benedict added that the immense time span that evolution covers made it impossible to conduct experiments in a controlled environment to finally verify or disprove the theory.

“We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory,” he said."
I wonder if by “immense”, he meant up to 5778 years?

Anyway - this may well be true. String Theory suffers similarly. Both should be approached with an objective mind and acceptance or denial of either (subject to acknowledging God created everything) should be understood to carry no implications for our salvation.
 
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Seems to me there are criminals and law abiding folks among both the religious and irreligious. Most criminals I have known have professed to be religious, some deeply so.
Read my post again - I specifically referred to “career criminals”, not criminals in general. I would imagine most people who end up in jail are not career criminals. Someone serving life for one murder, for example, is not necessarily a career criminal.
 
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