Is Darwin's Theory Of Evolution True?

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Why shouldn’t it be? The atheist billboard campaign in the US and the signs on buses in London encouraging people to forget about God and go on with their lives as if He doesn’t exist. I mean, people can say what they want but these are not meaningless words. They are meant to get people thinking that God and Church are worthless.
 
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Evolution is also a confirmed observation that occurs. This is not disputed.
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You mean SOME forms of evolution have been observed and are not disputed. An microbe changing over time into a human being is evolution, but it has never been observed and it’s veracity is very much disputed.
Has any one ever observed an ape evolving into a human? Or a rodent evolving into a whale? There is great dispute over the reality of these forms of evolution.
In the same way, the Theory of Evolution undergoes REFINEMENTS and improvements. This is the scientific process.
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You make a valid point … I used to think the Tooth Fairy had long, flowing hair until I realized that it would get all messed up by her flying about hither and tither at great speed. So I refined my image of her to having short hair. It’s not as glamorous, but much more scientific.
Evolution has NEVER been shown to be wrong, even once, despite thousands of attempts by scientists.
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The theory of Santa Claus has never been shown to be wrong either.
There is a big problem with Catholicism and Evolution that has not as yet been resolved, namely that evolution shows that Adam and Eve did not exist, and therefore there was no original sin, and thus no need for salvation. This is a huge problem for Christianity. This is the primary reason orthodox Christians refuse to acknowledge Evolution, even though it has been proven far beyond a shadow of a doubt. Less orthodox Catholics are able to resolve this discrepancy through their faith, but in terms of Catechism, it completely subverts Christianity.
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Christian evolutionists don’t have a problem with Scripture - they just ignore it.
 
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edwest211 said:
The atheist billboard campaign in the US and the signs on buses in London encouraging people to forget about God and go on with their lives as if He doesn’t exist.
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What has that got to do with science? You’re helping them by affirming their mistaken belief that there is an adversarial conflict between the Christian Faith and Science; that the two are incompatible. Now everyone’s thinking Richard Dawkings is right, they are delusional. Well done edwest!
 
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Is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution True ? Part Two

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Very nice, “It’s all my fault” attempt. I saw Richard Dawkins on TV and he was asked if God breathed the breath of life into Adam, and he said, No. A real person, with a real name on TV with a celebrity host, and you’re comparing that to me?

I could be an albino living in Uzbekistan with a real name. Nice pointless try.
 
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It’s in the planning stages now. Wait for it…

The Theory of Endless Evolution threads rides to … uh… somewhere. Sort of.
 
I must be really stupid - I can’t see what relevance evidence of humans descending from humans has to do with humans descending from an ape. I wish I were as smart as an evolutionist. And what about their powers of wild extrapolation? Amazing!
 
I do wild extrapolation for a living and this, by far, is the wildest it gets.
 
In this case thinking sarcasm has more validity than assuming stupidity. The latter is not such a good thing on forums btw.

I don’t believe anyone is arguing against adaptation. The issue is speciation. It is an assumption that there existed a common ancestor (a living organism that carried and transmitted information to its progeny as to how a body should be formed) just because the genome has certain similarities. This is being passed as a fact, when it is merely a story.

I personally think it applies to many animals that we classify as being in different species, but may be cousins, many times removed. I also favour the idea of a very old universe, in large part because of what it reveals of God’s glory.

However, theideas that complex creatures such as plants and animals came from random electrochemical glitches in the genome of single cell organisms, and that they arose as living things from atoms and molecules juxtaposing themselves serendipitously with one another should strain the bounds of credulity beyond anyone’s limits.

But they dont. It goes to show how deeply a societal mythos is entrenched in our psyche.
 
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Then go to school, earn a biology or geology degree, get a specialization in paleontology. “Paleontology” is the subject you are debating. And evolutionary science. Genetics.
Do you have degrees in any of those? If not, then you do not know what you are talking about.
Case closed.
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Tell that to the patents clerk who revolutionised physics. I think his name was Albert …
 
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It doesn’t imply that, so your argument is a straw man.
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Really? Paragraph 283 of the Catechism likens the scientifc “discoveries” (ie, facts) about “the origins of man” (ie, evolution) to the “unerring knowledge” that God taught to Solomon (ie, infallible knowledge).

Please explain how I’ve misread it.
 
Glark said:
Science cannot explain the origins of life - that’s God territory.
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What do you mean by “explain” the origins of life? A thing can have two explanations. Both equally valid. It can be true that God created life and at the same time it can also be true that life arises through the potential of physical activity. Both explanations can be correct because they are dealing with different aspects of the same thing.

God created life because he is the source of all potentiality. It can also be true that God chooses to actualize that potentiality through natural physical processes…In fact, that’s exactly what it looks like.
 
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