Does the evolving from one species to another mean the extinction of the species it was evolved from?
No, it does not. Random mutations may or may not be useful in the present; they may or may not turn out to be useful in the future. They are random in their effects.
Only in the sense that natural selection will spread useful mutations through the population and reduce the number of deleterious mutations in the population. As environments change, so may “useful” and “deleterious”. Neutral mutations are not affected by natural selection.
Natural selection is not a chance process. Neutral mutations are subject to genetic drift, which is a chance process.
No. You “evolved” from your parents; that does not mean that your parents immediately died. Many Americans “evolved” from Europeans; there are still Europeans.
Of course we are looking. That is why it is the missing link. As soon as we find a link it is a found link.
in post #1058, you wrote this:
In the Catholic Church that I belong to, none of the theologians think evolution is compatible with the Bible.
Lol. People say that about religion anyway,
It was someone else who posted about their experience, but interestingly I was in a dangerous situation when I was probably about ten. In those days things were pretty rough; everyone’s parents were working during the day and the neighbourhood kids basically raised themselves and each other. Nobody had taught me how to swim, but seeing kids diving into the deep water and having so much fun, I decided to do the same. So in I went, but wasn’t coming back up. Panicking and thrashing, of course if anything, I went deeper. A voice, the only one I have heard from someone not present, told me clearly to stop and let myself go. Relaxing, I floated to the top and made it to where I could get out. I don’t think I questioned what had happened at the time; I was just happy to be alive.
Well, under normal circumstances we could defer to the consensus of the Church Fathers; in which case, I would be very surprised if even one of them considered the Flood be anyrhing other than literal. But theistic evolutionists’ respect for the Church Father’s on these sorts of matters is as non-existent as their respect for Scripture, so … continue to dwell on the exegesis lunatic-fringe, if that’s what makes you happy.
I know that, and my point is, not only is his statement an alarmist assertion preying on paranoia, he is not doing the faith of Christians any favors either. Rather, he is ironically helping the atheist agenda.
If evolution has no foresight, how did it produce a creature made in the image of God?
The dichotomy between qualitative and quantitaive is utilitarian. It may be useful, especially with respect to the physical sciences, but it remains artificial. Each thing is whole in itself as a form of being. Mass, velocity and charge are qualitities that belong to simple matter. Those basic qualities can be compared, thereby giving birth to the quantitative. As we have free will as a quality that defines our being, atoms have qualities that allow them to be used to construct more complex material objects. They are used to bring into existence, more complex creatures, bacteria, plants, animals and we ourselves, each with their own qualities which add to the totality of their material form. God brings this all into existence as its eternal Ground. It can change in accordance to His will. The creation of atoms was followed by the creation of life. Atoms cannot spontaneously bring about living organisms of increasing complexity. Their behaviour is seen death, where in the absence of the organizing prinicple of the particular being’s soul, it all reverts back to the star dust it is.
Except for a brief period of time towards the end of my teens and in my early thirties, I’ve always attended Sunday Mass. I can’t say why, given that until my kids were older, I didn’t say the complete Creed nor partake of the Eucharist because I didn’t believe what the Church told me they were.
Then we should see examples of evolution bringing about something that is not suited to their environment.