I suspect that those who hear about evolution on a regular basis often do not have a clear understanding of what the Church teaches or somehow believe that science has disproved something. It is either exciting to them or they have not examined what the Church teaches in the same depth as they have examined certain scientific claims.
At the present time, Secularists very much want the purely Biology textbook version of evolution to be true. We, meaning human beings, are simply collections of chemicals that became more complex for no particular reason. We look like human beings because that’s how ‘natural selection’ picked out certain elements of the primordial soup as we became more complex. Once again, God is, and must be ignored by these Secularists who seek to find a common answer. Saying God did something like adding an invisible (to science) soul is meaningless and easily discarded. This is not good enough for Catholics.
Genesis is the most often attacked book of the Bible by those who believe science has ‘proven’ something. Let’s look at Romans 5:12:
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned:”
Here we clearly see that by one man sin entered the world.
Apparently, to find this ‘common ground,’ God does nothing. Evolution is let loose as if it has a mind to create and select. This makes no sense as a stand alone idea. Evolution has no creative force or selecting ability.
To the purely Secularist mind, we are simply matter in motion. A ball of rock orbiting a star that spontaneously produced life because a bunch of chemicals got together?
No scientist can produce life in the lab, yet a great faith is exhibited by some that life arose by itself. There is no evidence for this.
So, people post here as if most of the answer is proven with certainty: we are simply chemicals in motion. Nothing more.
Who did Jesus Christ die for? A hominid? A proto-human? No. Science cannot provide an answer.
The link between Adam and Jesus is direct. Jesus, Himself, was far more than a man but the Word made Flesh.
It would be fruitful, I think, for those who consider scientific claims to imagine how He fits into any sort of evolution. He chose to be born and to enter human history. He manipulated the wind and the storm without technology. He raised the dead and mutiplied the loaves and fishes, creating matter from nothing, just as the Bible tells us.
At present, science does not have any credible explanation for this reality. Catholics need to realize that there are some who are desparate to separate us from the reality of the Living God. After we die, we will meet God. All of us, believers and nonbelievers.
God bless,
Ed
Will go into it further, depending on questions.