The Evolution Poll

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“Other”

That is, I don’t know, and it doesn’t matter.
 
None of the choices really fits what I think. My opinion is that the Biblical account of creation in Genesis is the truth. However, it is not a scientific record and should not be read as such.

I believe that God created the universe; whether it was in six, 24 hour days or longer periods doesn’t matter to me.
I believe that God created the forces of evolution that are in place in creation today.
When God created the universe, he created it with age and maturity; the process of evolution was well on its way and the universe had “age” to it. (Mountains already formed, trees mature with growth rings, light from distant galaxies already in transit to us, Adam and Eve as adults etc.)

I don’t necessarily see Evolution and Creation as contradictory ideas. (Though how some people state them makes it seem so.)

Tu Amigo, Pablo
 
I believe that the universe is billions of years old, but I’m not sure about macroevolution. There is some dearth of intermediate fossils, which could mean that God made each species separately and let them change through natural selection (microevolution.) However, the incomplete fossil record does not disprove the theory of evolution either. Whatever the case may be, at some point in history, there were only two humans with immortal souls - Adam, and Eve, from whom we are all descended. And our ancient parents messed up pretty bad too.

And re the book of Genesis, my understanding is that we should read it literally - as it was intended to be read - in order to fully grasp the spiritual truths contained therein. It is not a scientific explanation of how the universe was created, though I do not deny that it could be a literal account, though it seems unlikely. I affirm that the human race is descended from two people, as the Catholic Church teaches.

I’m loath to disagree with the scientific consensus on a matter I know an insufficient amount about, so I chose “God created the universe and guided evolution, but PHYSICALLY created humans separately.”
 
Quite simply, Other

Reason?
God created perfectly out of nothing the heavens and the earth and Man in His own image.

Then we messed up…

A world that was created perfect does not need to evolve. Man was created also perfectly and then we messed up and the Earth and our existence is what it is AS A RESULT.

We will again be perfected in Christ if we persevere. And Christ will make a new Heavens and New Earth at His second coming.

Who cares about evolution? If the theory exists or is used in an attempt to disprove this Truth, then the theory is misapplied or just plain wrong…

Joe B
 
Keep in mind that any Anthropologist or Anthropology book will tell you it’s a THEORY of Evolution. A THEORY is NOT a LAW–who disputes the LAW of GRAVITY???

Secondly, the word “Adam” is a Hebrew word, meaning “mankind” and “Eve” meaning “bearer of mankind” so when God created Adam and Eve, He created men and women.

To say that the earth/universe was created in 7 24hr days is putting God’s time into human time.

Everything in the Bible is true! Some of it actually happened.

Bible was not written as a scientific notebook or as a historical document–not ever meant to be interpreted for history or science–it was written to teach about FAITH and GOD and SALVATION.

From a scientific standpoint

scientists can map out the transition between different hominid species…from the earliest ‘upright’ one up thru Homo habilis/Homo erectus, and so on. But then there’s a ‘gap’ between these and homo sapiens. There’s been no uncovered fossils that show the ‘link’ between the earlier homids and Homo sapiens.

Then when Neanderthals were discovered in Europe, you now have Homo sapien sapiens (us) and Homo sapen neanderthalis. Half of the anthropologists who study the neanderthals believe that they were there own species who just died off while the other half believe that they bred with Homo sapiens sapiens and became one. If you want to read an excellent book on this, read “The Neanderthal Enigma” by James Shreeve.

I personally don’t think science will ever prove/discover the origination of mankind, just like the "Big Bang Theory (again, a theory, not a LAW) will ever be proved either, because scientific study cannot find proof/evidence of faith and other non-tangible concepts, and I think the whole evolution debate will last as long as humans are on the earth.

I just keep in mind that yes, God created the world, but he didn’t leave an instruction manual. And whatever we want to believe about our ‘beginnings’, we should focus on our current lives and how we are living for our future.

God Bless,

Barbara
 
in hebrew adam means mankind eve means mother of the living or soemthing like this.

In my point of view after reading the intepretation of Pope Ratzinger when he was a cardinal there r two main things about Genesis n the 6 days creation scenario
  1. God is teh creator
  2. after the six days God rested. aday was honored to him this is the reason of the6 days scenario ,
    God made a pact with men.
    as a creator with his creatures in order that one day of the week he will have a day in which people must workship
    him the sabbath.
    However the day became sunday when Jesus rouse from the death so its a day of glory n since then it was celerated in sunday.
I think thats the main reason of the 6 days scenario, cause the next day has to be to honor God , this is the pact from creator n creature, and its a remainder that we depend of God.
 
I voted “other” mainly because of the time factors fixed to the choices. I have come, through listening to varied credentialed geologists and scientist, astronomers, on both sides of the debate. I have also read Doctors of the Church and early Church Fathers. Combining all this with my reading of many different versions of the scriptures (of which I have become convinced of the definitive superiority of the Douay=Rheims) that God did in fact create the entire universe in a period of six, twenty-four hour days. The final bit that convinced me was my reading of St. Basil’s “Hexairon”. What I could not totally agree with in the choices given us was the time period as to the age of creation. I chould not choose between 6,000 or 6 million. I don’t know and I have yet to really study that question, as it has not become an important point for me. What was important to me, and St. Basil has explained it very well, was the question - When did time begin? The answer to this is also the lichpin to the issue of the six, 24 hour day debate, in my non-theologian, non-scholarly opinion.
 
JButky said:
Quite simply, Other

Reason?
God created perfectly out of nothing the heavens and the earth and Man in His own image.

Then we messed up…

A world that was created perfect does not need to evolve. Man was created also perfectly and then we messed up and the Earth and our existence is what it is AS A RESULT.

We will again be perfected in Christ if we persevere. And Christ will make a new Heavens and New Earth at His second coming.

Who cares about evolution? If the theory exists or is used in an attempt to disprove this Truth, then the theory is misapplied or just plain wrong…

Joe B
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I chose “Other” and I second your comments.

The unaverse is so very vast and complicated and I think it’s vain of man to say “I know how it happened, it happened this or that way”. God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are SO far above ours. If He indeed showed us how He did it, our minds would probably explode!
 
I hesitate to comment, but perhaps discussing this with Catholics is much better than with non-Catholics.
Keep in mind that any Anthropologist or Anthropology book will tell you it’s a THEORY of Evolution. A THEORY is NOT a LAW–who disputes the LAW of GRAVITY???
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An anthropologist will tell you that a scientific theory is quite different than Jim Bob’s theory of UFO abduction. A scientific theory is a self-consistent model to explain natural phenomena. It has to meet rigorous criteria to be labeled a “theory” so please don’t let the lexicon fool you. Probability Theory works very well as does the Theory of Relativity.

Evolution is. What I don’t understand is why that is such a problem for people. Gravity is. Yet, that doesn’t seem to bother anyone. Ostensibly we can assume that God created gravity as well as evolution. We can assume that God created all the mechanisms that drive biology, chemistry, and physics. To be honest, I’ve always found those mechanisms so absolutely impressive that it seems that they had to have been created by a higher power. If we used probability and chalked it all up to randomness, the odds of random events that would have been required to accidentally create these natural systems would be staggering.

Besides, it was a Roman Catholic Priest who proposed the “Big Bang” theory 😉
 
Vaclav said:
I hesitate to comment, but perhaps discussing this with Catholics is much better than with non-Catholics.

An anthropologist will tell you that a scientific theory is quite different than Jim Bob’s theory of UFO abduction. A scientific theory is a self-consistent model to explain natural phenomena. It has to meet rigorous criteria to be labeled a “theory” so please don’t let the lexicon fool you. Probability Theory works very well as does the Theory of Relativity.

Evolution is. What I don’t understand is why that is such a problem for people. Gravity is. Yet, that doesn’t seem to bother anyone. Ostensibly we can assume that God created gravity as well as evolution. We can assume that God created all the mechanisms that drive biology, chemistry, and physics. To be honest, I’ve always found those mechanisms so absolutely impressive that it seems that they had to have been created by a higher power. If we used probability and chalked it all up to randomness, the odds of random events that would have been required to accidentally create these natural systems would be staggering.

Besides, it was a Roman Catholic Priest who proposed the “Big Bang” theory 😉
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Amen 👍 :banghead:
 
God made everything. God creates each human soul individually.The rest has nothing to do with religion.

Verbum
 
I chose other. I accept the theory of evolution, and I will untill the scientific evidence points otherwise, though I can’t really say that I worry about it that much. It certainly doesn’t keep me up at night.

As for the theological/philisophical side of how God created the world, I think Einstein summed it up well.

“There are two ways of looking at the world. One is as though nothing is a miracle, and the other is as though everything is a miracle.”

So, as to how much is random chance and how much is the guidence of God, it depends on how you look at it.
 
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