Why you should think that the Natural-Evolution of species is true

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Church teachings which violate the laws of physics are wrong. God makes the rules, not humans.
 
Very sad. Science is being promoted here as god. God is just a word that can be discarded at any time.
 
God invented the universe. Science is a tool for knowing the mind of God. That’s all. You can’t observe something about the universe (which God literally created) and then say it’s false. Evolution is a fact regardless of what you do or do not believe. God’s rules for the universe are the laws of physics. God stated that none of his creations be able to go faster than light. God can break this rule, but nothing else can.

And the Catholic Church accepts the fact of evolution anyway.
 
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What does the Catholic Church accept?

Pope Benedict XVI

In the book, Benedict reflected on a 1996 comment of his predecessor, John Paul II, who said that Charles Darwin’s theories on evolution were sound, as long as they took into account that creation was the work of God, and that Darwin’s theory of evolution was “more than a hypothesis.”

“The pope (John Paul) had his reasons for saying this,” Benedict said. “But it is also true that the theory of evolution is not a complete, scientifically proven theory.”

Benedict added that the immense time span that evolution covers made it impossible to conduct experiments in a controlled environment to finally verify or disprove the theory.

“We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory,” he said.
 
PhiriTalk said:
Evolution is a fact regardless of what you do or do not believe.
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What do you mean by evolution?

I thought that too, but hadn’t really thought about it. I knew what got you the correct answer on the test and what I had been taught over and over. It made sense, and I really didn’t question its validity.

If you want to get into why you believe it, I would be glad to discuss it with you.
 
The theory evolution has literally nothing to do with the origin of life, so it’s literally not incompatible with Catholicism. The Catholic Church accepts God as the creator of everything. The Church didn’t create the universe, God did.

Evolution is a fact, whether you like it or not.
 
Evolution is the change in heritable characteristics over successive generations of biological organisms. What else would I mean by evolution?

Whether or not I, or anyone else, believes in evolution is irrelevant. It’s happens regardless of what anyone believes.
 
Changing social morality has nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution. And it’s not some sinister conspiracy theory. It’s a physical fact. It happens literally all the time. I hope this doesn’t turn into a conservapediaesque thing where the Theory of General Reletivity is treated as the same thing as moral relativism, just because the names sound similar. #facepalm
 
As Pope Benedict XVI stated, it is impossible to do experiments to verify or disprove the theory. That is the truth. Endless assertions that something is true doesn’t make it true.
 
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Pope Benedict can say whatever he wants. He is human and fallible (the Pope is only considered infallible when sat upon the throne of St Peter, not all the time). Evolution is a well developed and backed up theoretical framework. It literally is empirically supported.

Denying evolution is like denying gravity. You can deny it all you want, but it’s still there regardless.
 
PhiriTalk said:
Evolution is the change in heritable characteristics over successive generations of biological organisms. What else would I mean by evolution?

Whether or not I, or anyone else, believes in evolution is irrelevant. It’s happens regardless of what anyone believes.
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Your’s would be more along the lines of my definition of genetics, which is what has been revealed empirically.

Evolution commonly means something along the lines of:
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a common descent of all living forms, from one, or a very small number of primitive unicellular organisms, which diversified, and in increasing complexity through time. This belief is founded on the false assumption that what we find in nature is the result of random material events occuring at the level of the genome, modulated by the capacity of the phenotype, the adult organism, to fit in its environment and reproduce.
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You speak like a true believer, never, ever putting to the test what you think is true, or reflecting on how you know, what you “know”.

I’m telling you it’s wrong, but then we are talking apples and oranges, so what’s the point?
 
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PhiriTalk said:
Denying evolution is like denying gravity. You can deny it all you want, but it’s still there regardless.
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There are a number of ways to understand “gravity”, which describes the reality that things fall things, at some point thought of as a force, and today, something along the lines of a relationship that exists between physical events, influencing the shape has the “shortest” path from one place to another.

To deny that life evolved on earth, is not to deny genetics, which actually leads one to confront the deficiencies of the theory of evolution.

This, in which we are here participating, is all about the creation of different kinds of being, a hierarchy of increasingly complex relationships, culminating in the bringing into existence of humanity, of which we are, each of us, an individual manifestation, the whole, within and without, broken in Adam and united in Jesus Christ.
 
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You speak like a true believer, never, ever putting to the test what you think is true, or reflecting on how you know, what you “know”.
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An extraordinarily insulting comment. Which would be insulting enough if it came from someone who showed a reasonable understanding of the process. Which, by virtue of your countless (and some might say pointless) posts on the matter, is obviously not the case with you.

I have to say that quite a few of those posting to deny this risible claim that evolution denies God show a knowledge and an understanding of the science behind the process far in excess of what I normally see in forums such as this.

You would do well to listen to them so that at least you might reach a point where you can argue from a knowledgeable point of view
 
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To deny that life evolved on earth, is not to deny genetics, which actually leads one to confront the deficiencies of the theory of evolution.
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Whats the point of genetics, and our genetic similarities with other organisms, if evolution is not true?

Genetics brings us a wealth of information that shows us how evolution is actually possible.
 
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I don’t think you understand what evolution is.

Evolution isn’t wrong.

What you or I believe or don’t believe is irrelevant. Evolution happens regardless of what anyone believes.
 
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