Does Darwin's theory of evolution contradict Catholicsm?

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God created time. Either we are on a timeline or not. My God can create in an instant, so time is not needed in His case.
 
sallybutler said:
The main way that Darwin’s theory contradicts Catholicism is when people use it to say why some people are better than others and/or deserve more.
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That would appear to be an un-Christian act on the part of “people” rather than a defect on the part of the theory. That atheists may believe Darwin’s theory eliminates God, is not inherent to the theory.
 
Even Dawkins got it. If Darwinism is right Catholicism is wrong. He said theistic evolution cannot be. It is one or the other.
 
Yes, Darwin contradicts Catholicsm…

Darwin was born in the year 1809…

Catholicsm was birthed from many many centuries prior.
 
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No. Adam and Eve were special creations. Eve was not born but fashioned by God from Adam’s side while he was in a deep sleep. The theory is marketed as is. Adding God means nothing. So Dawkins and company can rail against a being that either might exist (but did nothing in Genesis like breathe the breath of life into Adam, I heard him say No to that idea on TV), or doesn’t exist.
 
sallybutler said:
The main way that Darwin’s theory contradicts Catholicism is when people use it to say why some people are better than others and/or deserve more.
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So, when Christians say that some people are better and deserve heaven, while other people are not better and deserve hell, they are following Darwinism?

I must say that I have not seen that particular theological interpretation before.

rossum
 
Techno2000 said:
Well he did say something about differential amplification… whatever the hell that means.
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Amplification means increase. Differential means that some mutations are increased more than others. Beneficial mutations are increased in the next generation. Neutral mutations are neither increased nor decreased. Deleterious mutations are decreased in the next generation.

It works like compound interest. Beneficial mutations have a small positive interest rate. Neutral mutations have a zero interest rate. Deleterious mutations have a negative interest rate, ranging -100% for fatal mutations (no offspring) to a small negative interest rate for mildly deleterious mutations.

HTH

rossum
 
Aloysium said:
How do you fit God into the Theory?
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You don’t; you fit the theory ‘into’ God. God created the universe and evolution is part of the universe. God knew exactly what He was making and the future effects of what He was making.

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No, Adam was the prototypical human. God could put him anywhere He wanted in the timeline.
 
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