And the very same piece of scripture can be interpreted differently as well. Both theistic evolutionists and young earth creationists claim to have interpreted scripture correctly.Yes, and that is exactly where the issue lies. The very same evidence can be interpreted differently. What is the tie breaker?
They are of a totally different class. Gravity is not an explanation but rather a name given to the fact that things fall. Infants in high chairs who cannot yet speak know about gravity, laughing as they play the pick it up daddy game. Contrast this with evolution that required Darwin to spell it out.Evolution and Gravity are both explanations for observed phenomena
No. Macro-evolution is also a change in the genome of a population. There was once a single population of equids. The population genome of those equids changed so that there were two sub-groups, one taller, the other shorter. Rather than drifting back together these two sub-groups moved further apart in genome-space until interbreeding became difficult and later produced only sterile crosses. So horses and donkeys are now two separate, though very closely related, species.Are you now narrowing your definition of evolution? No one argues micro-evolution as you know.
It most definitely is, as the location of the incarnation of the Word of God, and with the orientation of the planets stars that announced the birth and death of our Lord to a humanity that gazed at the stars for meaning, I don’t know what you mean by satellite data.Three satellites confirmed the earth is in a special place in the universe. This was repeated each time with more sophisticated instruments. This increases our confidence that it is correct. (observable, repeatable and predictable)
AIUI the Catholic Magisterium allows TE, OEC and YEC interpretations of Genesis. In that particular case, even Catholics have to fall back on private interpretation. The various discussions between Catholics on this thread show that. The Magisterium has been quoted on both sides.That is why Catholics go to the Magisterium. Private interpretation is what protestants do.
Are you referring to the fruit trees/marine animals thing? If observation shows that fruit trees came before marine animals then evolution is wrong. If observation shows that marine animals came before fruit trees then the bible is wrong.What difference does it make?
We cannot, of course observe one kind of organism predating the other directly. Which is why I used the words “shows that”. The earliest fossil fruit found is about 52 million years old, and the earliest marine animals date from about 600 million years ago. This is wholly incompatible with the Genesis account.and how will we go about observing that?
Yey! I knew that was coming. Will the fact that younger fossils are usually found above older fossils do as an explanation? Or the fact that the radioactive decay of older rocks is greater than that of younger rocks?We know they are how old how? The rocks they were found in.
Can’t you see the absurdity of this? There are about a million words in a language, and a book is about fifty thousand words long. The total number of possible books is therefore a million to the power of fifty thousand. There isn’t enough time… And you’re absolutely correct!Despite this? “The number of possible interactions , the number of possible circuits you could form 25,000 genes is 10^70,000. There wouldn’t be enough time over the whole billions of years of the evolution of life on earth for nature to have explored but more than a tiny fraction of those.”
You may be correct, but some of us have had to keep up with advances in science as part of our jobs, which includes subscribing to, and reading, journals and magazines, and paying for papers behind paywalls.Could be you and some others here:
“The great majority of people we are talking to were educated in biology 30 or 40 years ago and they really have no idea of the sea change that has occurred.”