Is Darwin's Theory of Evolution True? Part Three

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Hebrews 3:3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
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When I need time to spend in the scripture with my friends, I visit MyManCave dot com, and I go into my profile and activate The Word page.
 
I watched Richard Dawkins on TV. He was asked if God created Adam and breathed life into his nostrils. His answer? “No!”
 
John 14:2:

New International Version
“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”

New Living Translation
“There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?”

English Standard Version
“In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?”
 
Genesis describes things God actually did. Science is currently groping in the dark and evolution is not helping.
 
Glark said:
Unfortunately, many of the greatest minds of the Church are as deceived, blind and brainwashed as you. Worse, I suspect that some of the greatest minds of the Church are spiritually corrupt and can be numbered among Satan’s little helpers.

The Catholic Church allows the faithful to believe in a literal “six days” interpretation of Genesis 1. Are you saying this teaching is wrong?
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Far be it from me to claim Augustine and Aquinas are numbered among “Satan’s little helpers.” The Church allows the faithful to believe in a literal six days, sure, but I fundamentally disagree with it. And that’s fully within my rights.
 
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edwest211 said:
God creates and there is evidence that He actually created.
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Erm… No. You are mistaken. Vishnu created the world, and there is evidence that He created.

What parts of creation are impossible for Vishnu?

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buffalo said:
theisitc evolution
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I can’t think of how it would work. Trying to stay on both sides of the fence, there is no support from either. There seem to be quite a few posters holding that view. Perhaps rather that criticising creationist positions, their time would be better spent attempting to explain how God and evolutionary theory come together.
 
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There are different stories. In one, Brahman creates the world as he sits on a lotus that grows out of Vishnu’s umbilicus as he sleeps resting on Seshanaga the multiheaded serpent who eternally sings his praises as they float on an infinite ocean of milk. I could give you a Christian interpretation of the Truth this reveals, but that would be for another thread.
 
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Okay. . . so God made this and this and that, and said it was Good.

Fine. What if the Biblical days are evolutionary epochs? Then evolution is the mechanism by which God made the various animals, and He saw that it was Good.

Why say, “No. . . it had to be exactly this and only this” when a broader and more inquisitive perspective on Creation is still within the bounds of faith?

I have a question: does Genesis say “This is a literal and historical account of how God created the Universe?” Does it say, “Thus says the Lord, ‘This is how I made the Earth and all the creatures in it, and it is not open to literary or scientific interpretation!’” If not, then on what basis are you forced to believe that to be the case?
 
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Aloysium said:
Perhaps rather that criticising creationist positions, their time would be better spent attempting to explain how God and evolutionary theory come together.
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By playing the God card they can gloss over any flaws in Darwin’s theory .
 
benjamin1973 said:
Fine. What if the Biblical days are evolutionary epochs? Then evolution is the mechanism by which God made the various animals, and He saw that it was Good.
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That’s what St Augustine would agree with if he was aware of modern biology. He wrote an encyclical, De Genesi, in which he defended a non-literal interpretation of Genesis. What’s important is not the “history” or “science” of the book, but that God created all things, and that man has willfully fallen to sin. The technical discription of how creation came to be is irrelevant, theologically speaking - it’s a bit anthropocentric to think God literally got out his modeling clay and engineering software to construct the universe.

Benjamin, what you’re saying is a wholly Catholic interpretation. Don’t listen to people who insist on a literal 6 days.
 
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