Evolution! Did we come from monkeys?

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While it is easy to dismiss Pope John Paul II or Pius XII, (What do they know about scripture anyway?) This has been studied by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for many years. As far as Benedict XVI, this article catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21156 portrays his views on the subject. Science has historically clashed with the church, but John Paul II stressed that the two are compatible. It is really easy to take a simple (literal) approach to what you read. It is a little harder to accept them as inspired, leaving some leeway and requiring some meditation. The only non-debatable aspect is God created us.

It is wonderful that we are not in a close-minded church that is afraid to look outside a literal translation of the bible for answers. Do you believe God put dinosaur bones here to test us?

There is much we do not know. I am really tired of the question - do you think God is tricking us? That is our own pride and ego that says our discoveries and theories are the final word.

I believe that the modern lens we are looking through leaves much to be desired.

Pope B16 says not to abandon reason to material science.

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From Joseph Ratzinger’s 1990 book, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.
“What response shall we make to this view [evolution]?” he asked. “It is the affair of the natural sciences to explain how the tree of life in particular continues to grow, and how new branches shoot out from it. This is not a matter for faith.… More reflective spirits have long been aware that there is no either-or here. We cannot say: ‘creation or evolution,’ inasmuch as these two things respond to two different realities.… The theory of evolution seeks to understand and describe biological developments. But in so doing it cannot explain where the ‘project’ of human persons comes from, nor their inner origin, nor their particular nature. To that extent we are faced here with two complementary – rather than mutually exclusive – realities.”

I am not too concerned with what any one person may believe. Just keep an open mind. God created us. The only question is how.