The Missing Link has Been Found how will this change morality?

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Since we now can better prove Macro Evolution is true, what effect do you think this will have on homosapien Morality?
 
Can you please post your anti-evolution posts in one of the many other threads you have started on the topic, TruthisBeauty7? It is getting very tiresome to see another anti-evolution thread by you ever few hours/days, and none of them have much at all to do with the overall topic of this forum (non-Catholic religions), so this is rather excessive.

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Im starting to see evolution as true…I seriously want to discuss the implications this has on faith and morality.
 
TruthisBeauty7 said:
Im starting to see evolution as true…I seriously want to discuss the implications this has on faith and morality.
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Yeah, right. The picture of Ida had a sudden revelatory impact on you? Did you see a bright light and heard voices, like Paul?😉
 
Im kidding ,

Seriously …what effect will this have on people’s faith and morality please discuss
 
Only the popular media have called Ida a “missing link.”

Scientists have not.

A paleontologist said that Ida might be the great-great-great-great aunt, but not a great-great-great-great grandmother.

But to answer your question: No effect whatsoever.
 
If macro eveolution can be proven without a doubt, does it make theft less wrong? Or Murder? Or rape? or anything else?
 
TruthisBeauty7 said:
Since we now can better prove Macro Evolution is true, what effect do you think this will have on homosapien Morality?
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I think it might make people (at least those who aren’t blind to evolution) a little more likely to realize that things are truly connected. Maybe people might realize that, though we have a special place in God’s creation, we are truly part of God’s created, physical world, and that we shouldn’t make gods of ourselves. We are flesh and blood like the rest of the animals on the planet. And what’s so bad about that? What is heretical in knowing that we are connected to the other living things that God also created? Maybe with this knowledge they will begin to truly appreciate the beauty (not just the pretty flowers and mountains) of God’s created world. Believing, in the face of all the scientific evidence, that we were created in a physically different way than the rest of creation will be impossible. And maybe, just maybe, people will realize that God is a lot smarter than they are, and that a creation story, though it has immense value, is not a creation blueprint. God created us for a special purpose. Does that necessarily mean that He also created us in a special way? In a way different from all of the other species on the planet?
 
TruthisBeauty7 said:
Im starting to see evolution as true…I seriously want to discuss the implications this has on faith and morality.
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There are none. What was harmful to your fellow human is still harmful to your fellow human (stealing, adultery, etc.) Why would evolution change that?
 
To the Moderators:

Please merge this thread with the 4 or so other threads started by the same author which discuss the exact same issue. It’s getting tiresome replying to straw men in multiple threads. I suspect that this was the author’s intent and explains the multiplicity. At best (s)he is attempting to keep opposition too busy to efficiently respond, and at worst (s)he is spamming the boards.

Thank you.
 
I agree, Truth, you’re making too many posts on the same subject and they should be combined. Now, what does evolution have to do with morality? Nothing, unless you view it through Darwinian philosophy. If we view it through the lense of Christians/Catholics, as many, including Pope John Paul II, have why should it affect morality? All the theory says is that things evovle. We have evidence to support this. Accepting this doesn’t change our world view or our faith! It’s a matter of science and nothing more. Why can’t God have come in at some point and given us souls and morality? Perhaps at the same point as humans made the leap from primates. The Church teaches that two beings known as Adam and Eve did exist. Why can’t these be early humans, the first with souls and morality, and the first to fall to sin?
 
Since:
Ida isn’t a true missing link,
Ida isn’t a new find,
Ancient Jewish traditions recorded in the late BC – early AD period say there were once non-human animals that looked human but that they died out in Adam’s generation,
The Bible actually specifically says Adam was created out of the dust/slime of the earth, so out of existing stuff, not out of nothing,
I see no issue whatsoever.
 
cheese_sdc said:
There are none. What was harmful to your fellow human is still harmful to your fellow human (stealing, adultery, etc.) Why would evolution change that?
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Bingo!
Cluny said:
Only the popular media have called Ida a “missing link.”

Scientists have not.
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Yep, it was a public relations blitz which was an embarrassment to scientists involved in studying evolution. This thread really has no purpose because Ida is not as earthshaking as the news coverage suggested.
 
It’s all a farse!!! God spoke it and it came to pass!!! That is no missing link!!! It had a birth defect!!! Have you ever seen a deformed animal?
 
Why all the yelling? There are many strange things in life, my friend. Best not to stake your faith in any way on things that your own predictions of what is or is not out there.

Behold, a two-headed kitten. There many more two-headed animals where that cute li’l guy came from (Google image search).
 
It had a birth defect!!! Have you ever seen a deformed animal?
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I don’t know enough about all the animals in the world to know of this fossil had a birth defect.

Do you?
 
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