Is Darwin's Theory Of Evolution True?

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Because to understand, facts must be put in proper context.

If we are to believe God is the author of all, then that is the context.
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This is at best a meaningless statement. [Is it perhaps born of a need to make God’s creative “act” tangible in a way WE can understand it?]

Try again to explain why developing explanations for natural events (say, volcanic eruptions) requires God to be mentioned?
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Yes.
My back hurts.
My discs are compressed. I’ve read a lot about that. Pinched nerves etc…
My faith gives me an overall context in which to integrate all this information, to deal with the pain, and to embark on a path to treatment. And to give meaning and purpose to it all.
But God is not specifically mentioned in any of this scientific discovery.

I don’t know why respect for discipline and competence is so difficult.
 
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Correct, but one should likewise not be attempting to utilize science to remove God from creation.
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People seem to think the theory of evolution is one instance where peer review science is encroaching on God’s sovereignty and i see no legitimate evidence of that. Where is the papal bull declaring a strict adherence to genesis as a literal historical presentation of God’s creative act.
 
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No, but every major type was immediately thought of and the code set forth to regenerate and propagate. The instructions allow adaptation.

It happened “in the beginning” so very close to the start.
 
Catholics read scripture literally, not literalistically.

An often repeated example is:

It is raining cats and dogs.

Literal - it is raining very hard.
Literalistic - cats and dogs are falling from the sky.
 
That was before epigenetics. No more. Different programming across a very similar genetics can be magnitudes different.

Once again. 88 key pianos are pretty much the same. Different tunes can be played on each one and never played on the others.
 
It refutes it by claiming it did not/could not happen.

Evolution does the same by trying to eliminate the creator and going through hoops to find a natural explanation. That is good in a way, but now the extreme belief in NS and RM is their own god of BUC.
 
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buffalo said:
Catholics read scripture literally, not literalistically.

An often repeated example is:

It is raining cats and dogs.

Literal - it is raining very hard.
Literalistic - cats and dogs are falling from the sky.
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So I hear you admitting that a 6 “day” creation is allegorical…
 
All of us will be resurrected. Science today which proclaims Evolutionary theory, would say it can’t happen. Why couldnt Adam’s creation have happened the same way? I don’t know.
 
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That was before epigenetics. No more. Different programming across a very similar genetics can be magnitudes different.

Once again. 88 key pianos are pretty much the same. Different tunes can be played on each one and never played on the others.
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Right, fingerprints all look the same, yet they are all different.
 
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Aloysium said:
…resurrection…
Science today which proclaims Evolutionary theory, would say it can’t happen.
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That’s not true as written in blanket fashion.
Some scientists deny the resurrection. Some scientists don’t. Some scientists overreach with science. Some don’t.
Some Catholics practice fideism, some don’t.
Etc…
 
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This is how I see it:
Gen 1 appears to be written from God’s perspective.

Imagine God looking at a tape measure rolled into 7 layers. God sees it all at once. He is outside of time. We are on the tape and have to look back on the graduations. I am not sure of the graduations length. Having said all that, if God says it was six days as we know them, it is six days then. Why would I doubt Him? Until the last few hundred years most everyone took it to mean 24 hour days.

The bottom line is that the Holy Spirit allowed our understanding to be in error for so long and then suddenly woke up and corrected the record? We really need to press science and make sure their claims are correct.
 
Honest question. Where do I submit regarding science? Who do I submit to? Honest comparison: Do I offer submission to the person and companies that make cars? I’m not interested in fancy terminology just a simple yes or no.
 
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Aloysium said:
All of us will be resurrected. Science today which proclaims Evolutionary theory, would say it can’t happen. Why couldnt Adam’s creation have happened the same way? I don’t know.
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You mean someone who does science expressed his opinion that the Resurrection can’t happen?

Well, by what we know of the natural world it would not happen “naturally”. I’m actually glad he or she said that. I agree with them…

As far as what’s possible outside the natural order, he or she could only be expressing their philosophical opinion, an opinion which is clearly erroneous.
 
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That was before epigenetics. No more. Different programming across a very similar genetics can be magnitudes different.
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Epigenetics does not have anything to do with what I said. I said nothing about gene functions, which epigenetics is about. I said that organisms that we know have a common origin do have similar genetic codes. That is still true regardless of whether some of those organisms exhibit different gene function.
 
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