Is Darwin's Theory Of Evolution True?

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Glark said:
God didn’t guide evolution to produce a human being made in His image?
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That depends on what you mean by “guide”. It seems to work well enough on its own without supernatural determinism. Your whole conspiracy mythos is dependent on the idea that God cannot create a universe that can do the job and so it requires intelligent intervention and tweaking… I don’t believe that any Christian or anyone else for that matter need subscribe to that belief simply becuase there is no good reason to…

And what do you mean by “in God’s Image”? If God chose to give personal souls to dolphins, instead of some bipedal creature, would the dolphin not be in God’s image?

I don’t think you fully understand what it means to be created in God’s image. The concept doesn’t actually require us to have a specific biological form. It just so happens that our common ancestor gave rise to creatures with brains complex enough and suitable enough for a personal soul. We could have easily have been chimpanzees if their brains were complex enough.
 
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There’s a conflict all right. Science tells us nothing of value regarding an untestable concept with no present scientific usefulness.
 
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Or lizard men if a ‘wrong’ turn had been made anywhere along the alleged line. I’ve heard no convincing arguments regarding how our brains and bodies self-upgraded.

The local lottery still gives far better odds. However, this concept requires winning the lottery over millions of years. Not convincing.
 
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Seems we totally disagree.

God could not use life forms to produce humanity. Life forms have their own individual existence.
My cat is what it is. It’s not transforming into anything other. It’s very old, survived all its sibs, but will die.

Darwinism is one of those words that sort of means what one wants. I use it as a pejorative term referring to the ideology of Scientism as it applies to the field of biology. The Theory of Evolution does not allow for the possibility of monogenism, and most definitely says nothing about the human soul.
 
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There’s definitely a conflict. And the Church is not consulted by scientists to get an approval for a discovery like dark matter.
 
The problem is however unlikely it may seem to you, you don’t have a better explanation and you don’t have a shred of evidence to support your conspiracy theory…
 
It doesn’t even qualify as a pseudoscience. It is definitely an ideology fabricated around observations that were manipulated into “this came from that.” Sure, we have plenty of extinct animals, and I’m not talking about 65 million years ago.

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www.biologicaldiversity.org
 
Playing the “conspiracy theory” card. Sorry, I’ve lost my knee-jerk reaction to that a long time ago.
 
Not really. Adam and Eve and original sin still stand as a reality.

Did God know what Adam would look like?
 
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edwest211 said:
No it doesn’t. Adam and Eve are not in any Biology textbook.
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I didn’t say biology textbooks promote Adam and Eve. I said that their existence is allowed - i.e. not contradicted - by Darwinian evolution.
edwest211 said:
There’s definitely a conflict. And the Church is not consulted by scientists to get an approval for a discovery like dark matter.
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Please quote the Church document that declares that we must not believe that the physical body of man evolved from other animals.
edwest211 said:
It doesn’t even qualify as a pseudoscience. It is definitely an ideology fabricated around observations that were manipulated into “this came from that.”
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It seems that real scientists disagree with you.
Sure, we have plenty of extinct animals, and I’m not talking about 65 million years ago.
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Why not? That’s where we find a rich source of support for the theory. Why shouldn’t we talk about it? It is hard to explain the fossil record without evolution.
 
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Aloysium said:
Seems we totally disagree.

God could not use life forms to produce humanity.
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I would not be so bold as to place such limits on what God can do.
Darwinism is one of those words that sort of means what one wants. I use it as a pejorative term referring to the ideology of Scientism as it applies to the field of biology.
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OK, I’ll keep that in mind when reading your posts. Just don’t expect me to apply your definition to anyone else’s use of the term.
The Theory of Evolution does not allow for the possibility of monogenism.
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Prove it.
and most definitely says nothing about the human soul.
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The fact that it does not say anything about the human soul is fine. Evolution also does not say anything about the origin of magnesium. That does not mean evolution denies the existence of magnesium.
 
What? The fossil record shows abrupt appearance, stasis and variation within.
 
Conspiracy theorists often “adapt” to their environment. (page 2 Book name:“The Human Animal” by IWantGod)
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Playing the “conspiracy theory” card. Sorry, I’ve lost my knee-jerk reaction to that a long time ago.
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I don’t argue with believers. That is what you believe. So be it. I don’t.
 
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What? The fossil record shows abrupt appearance, stasis and variation within.
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The fact that there are any appearances at all argues against the belief that all species were specially created at once “in the beginning.” The apparent abruptness of appearances is a consequence of an incomplete fossil record and is not proof that species appeared too fast to have evolved. It would take a much more extensive fossil record and much more accurate dating to accurately measure the abruptness of the appearance of species.
 
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Believe what you want. Natural Evolution is the only explanation that makes sense… .
 
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