GTG l8er! 
A belief in evolution can be validly held if it is believed to be set in motion by God, and not instead of God.
Ok…i read americancatholic.org. So let me get this straight. An Eastern Catholic Patriarch gets elected by his church? Does that mean his parishioners?
Wait, what?
As long as you retain the beliefs that
ohhh…ok…i think i am gonna put that in my power point then. thanks. LOL
Patriarch’s (the heads of sui juris churches) are elected by a synod (a council of Bishops led by the Pope) and can only be totally accepted with the approval of the Pope.
that does not have much to do with the differences between Eastern and Latin rites within the Catholic Church. I don’t know what you mean by “Roman” and “Western”. the threads referenced early on answer your first question. This one should be researched in the apologetics forum since it is off your original topic. There are no differences in doctrine, the differences reside in their practice, language for the liturgy, disciplines regarding such things as married priests and so forth, not in the fundamental beliefs, which do not change.
Woops, I thought I wrote “Roman and Eastern” LOL
Actually, not all metropolitans are heads of Sui Iuris churches. Metropolitan is the eastern norm for contracting “Metropolitan Archbishop”; the western norm is to contract it to Archbishop. The dozens of Ukrainian metropolitans, for example, do not head churches sui iuris.
Thanks for the clarification
Just a correction, the elected Patriarch does not require approval from the Pope to assume the See. It is only after he has already become Patriarch that the Pope is notified, and then it is not for approval but as a matter of due notice and respect; such notifications are also sent to the other Eastern Catholic Patriarchs.
No! We did not evolve from apes, but we may have had a common ancestor. Evolution is acceptable of if it is understood that it is a cause of God and of His plan. The Creation in Genesis is an analogy and can be labeled as scholastic myth. Who cannot say that God allowed the evolution of man and then infused a soul in him when he was fully evolved in his present form? Remember, nothing is impossible with God and we do not know His plan. Therefore, with this in mind, evolution can be acceptable.
No! We did not evolve from apes, but we may have had a common ancestor. Evolution is acceptable of if it is understood that it is a cause of God and of His plan. The Creation in Genesis is an analogy and can be labeled as scholastic myth. Who cannot say that God allowed the evolution of man and then infused a soul in him when he was fully evolved in his present form? Remember, nothing is impossible with God and we do not know His plan. Therefore, with this in mind, evolution can be acceptable.
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The question is even if we take the creation account as allegorical, there is the problem of death. It did not exist before the fall. That seems to be a central theme in Eastern thought. Why did Adam have to "tend" the garden before decay and weeds? Early fathers relegated this to allegory saying it meant prayer, or tending to his soul.Actually, death, decay, etc. is only an assumption that there was none. Some means of providing/showing guilt had to be in evidence to explain man’s present position. Although I accept and believe as actual the scripture’s description of God’s seven day creation ( “a thousand years is but one day to the Lord…”, etc. ) the remainder is most likely myth so as to give some credence to man’s existence to the people of that day.