what should we accept about evolution and reject about it?

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one thing I know about evolution that is completely wrong is that we have evolved from apes, at-least i think its true. i’m sure you can go into it both ways philosophy wise and scientific wise, fell free to post both.

But as Believers what should we accept in the theory of evolution and what should we reject. I know there are alot of things in evolution that is widely accepted like animals adapting to their environment, natural selection, and so on and so forth.
 
I am not entirely sure but I think we are allowed to accept everything about evolution except for it’s denial that all humans with souls came from only two parents, Adam and Eve. Actually, I am not sure if they deny that or not but I think they do.
 
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I am not entirely sure but I think we are allowed to accept everything about evolution except for it’s denial that all humans with souls came from only two parents, Adam and Eve. Actually, I am not sure if they deny that or not but I think they do.
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the big problem with that is its the biggest part of evolution becuase i explains the origin of humans and i think thats something that everyone wants to know about
 
I see it like this:

All things have souls. “Soul” simply means life. However, only human beings have the type of soul that makes them capable of worshiping and developing a relationship with God.

So God created the Universe using the Big Bang (I believe in the Big Bang Theory, by the way). When the Earth came together, He created life. He set off the chain of evolution allowed various species to evolve. He allowed man to evolve into a species capable of high intelligence, so that this species could be capable of knowing Who God is; He allowed us to evolve into Homo Sapiens.

After this evolution was complete, God then said “Let us make man in Our Image”, meaning that He was going to give us a soul that would allow us to develop a relationship with Him. A soul that doesn’t just mean biological “life”, but rather a Spiritual Life as well. No other meaning would make sense, since “Image” would either mean soul or the body, and we all know that God doesn’t look like humans (except for Christ, who took a human body for His Mission).

So He gave Homo Sapiens a soul. The first two Homo Sapiens given a soul (or the first two evolved, either way) were Adam and Eve. He gave them an abode called the Garden of Eden. And the rest is His-Story (history, get it?).
 
Here is a line from Chesterton’s book “orthodoxy” written in 1908, not quite an exact quote, but close,

“If evolution means one thing turning slowly into another (like an ape into a man) then it is unproblematic for even the most orthodox, for a personal God might choose to do something slowly as much as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time. If it means more than that, it is an attack on reason.”

So, like chesteron, I see no problem if the scientific evidence indicates that men may have evolved from apes over a long time. We often see God as an artist and artists don’t tend to work quickly, why should God be in a rush? You can still saw God started the whole process off, intending that it would create man.

It’s only a problem when you say that evolution is all there is, but you don’t have to go that far. Even Darwin wondered if this was a problem. He wondered that we don’t trust the thoughts in an ape’s mind to be rational, so if humans come from ape’s, then why should we trust what goes on in a human’s mind?
 
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one thing I know about evolution that is completely wrong is that we have evolved from apes
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Where, pray tell, did you get the idea that evolution means we evolved from apes? No science teacher ever taught me that, nor have I seen that in any science textbooks, nor for that matter am I aware of any Catholic school science curriculum teaching that. A few months ago, I was watching “Inherit The Wind” (about the Scopes trial) and my jaw dropped that in 2010, people seem to believe the same myths about evolution that were spit-balled back then. Amazing. 🤷

Edited to add: “National Geographic” magazine did an excellent overview of evolution a year or two ago. You can likely find that back issue at the library. (Don’t believe everything you see on the internet, particularly not from a blog.)
 
The theory of evolution does NOT say that we evolved from apes. It says we have a common ancestor. BIG difference.
catholictiger said:
one thing I know about evolution that is completely wrong is that we have evolved from apes, at-least i think its true. i’m sure you can go into it both ways philosophy wise and scientific wise, fell free to post both.

But as Believers what should we accept in the theory of evolution and what should we reject. I know there are alot of things in evolution that is widely accepted like animals adapting to their environment, natural selection, and so on and so forth.
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