Evolution/Birds/Catholicism

[PennyinCanada]

I have 2 comments. When God worked for 6 days and rested on the 7th, why isn’t that recorded just so that we can, as a child of God, follow his example by working 6 days and resting on the 7th? People read all kinds of things into that passage and maybe they shouldn’t be. The history of mankind works very well with a 7 day week with one day of rest.

Second. We understand that an acorn looks very different from a full grown oak tree. It’s all in the plan of God from the acorn and dna. So it takes 50 yrs to mature. How about if it took 50 million years to look like that? Still part of God’s plan. So it is with evolution that something looks one way, 50 million years it looks different. It doesn’t mean God wasn’t the author of life from the very beginning of it’s existence.

 

[ontheway1]

How many Catholics here believe birds evolved from dinosaurs or are now still in the category of dinosaurs? If not, can you link me to a current, up to date article that says they aren’t?

Scientific theories, like the evolution theory, are just that. THEORIES. They come and they go. Many are replaced by other theories which sooner or later get discarded.

So, the current theory that we all eveloved from something else is a promising one, as data can be gathered that support the theory. There are other data that don’t support it or even contradict it. Since these are not “convenient”, they are not discussed, and if someone points to these data, he is laballed a creationist.

So what about God? Did HE create the world in 7 days. People who make this claim also believe that HE exists outside of time, so the calendar week could hardly be applied to Him.

Furthermore, it was a Catholic priest who devised the Big Bang theory. So how does that square with the creationis stuff.

And finally, the church as we know it does not deny or contradict scuence. Quite the opposite is true. Most scientists until the last two centuries were priests.

So, the original question is not really a question that can be posed to a group, as every individual has their own attitude toward this issue. How that attitude squares with the church and what it says about science and evolution, is a different matter.

Given the church’s attitude toward scientific discovery, one could argue that denying science (and the theory of evolution) could be considered anti-christian.