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30th April 2012, 07:04 AM
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Reps: 2,087,816,321,146,207 (power: 2,087,816,321,148) | | | I took an anthropology class about human origins in a very secular university. The professor (who specialized in hominid evolution and primatology) was a practicing Catholic whose children went to a parochial school. The idea that evolutionists are all God-hating heathens is just silly. The Pope accepts evolution, the magesterium of the RCC has no problem with it, the Anglican Communion's "first amongst equals" The Archbishop of Canterbury has no problem with it, and countless other Christians from the Protestant denominations as well. I don't really understand myself why this fundamentalist reading of Genesis is so important to certain Christians. I respect their search for truth, but I just seem a bit perplexed that they feel the need to reject scientific evidence. It worries me because it makes the Christian faith seem brittle. The faith is strong, it doesn't need to deny science. The faith is unscathed by evolutionary biology.
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30th April 2012, 07:46 AM
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It seems the consensus here is theistic evolution - which is a bit refreshing - especially how the current Pope supports evolution.  |
30th April 2012, 07:49 AM
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It seems the consensus here is theistic evolution - which is a bit refreshing - especially how the current Pope supports evolution.
Well, I consider evolution and theistic evolution to be indistinguishable. I suspect I believe pretty similar to what the Pope does. |
30th April 2012, 08:29 AM
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I had expected a shift towards evolution.
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30th April 2012, 08:40 AM
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I had expected a shift towards evolution.
Thanks, everyone.
How do you see the two as different? |
30th April 2012, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Blackwater Babe How do you see the two as different?
Evolution is quite a bit different from Creationism. Creationism inclines that they world and everything we know was created in six, 24 hour days. Evolution occurred through natural selection and, even further back, the big bang. I believe in evolution (or, theistic evolution as some call it).
How is it not different is the question. |
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But to be honest I don't have any thing against Young Earth Creationism, that it was as black and white as stated in the Bible. If it was like that then cool. If it wasn't then fine.
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30th April 2012, 09:36 AM
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Reps: 301,272,253,198,615,424 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by JBMM Evolution is quite a bit different from Creationism. Creationism inclines that they world and everything we know was created in six, 24 hour days. Evolution occurred through natural selection and, even further back, the big bang. I believe in evolution (or, theistic evolution as some call it).
How is it not different is the question.
Yeeeeah... I'm pretty current on the differences between creationism and evolution. I thought we were talking about the differences between evolution and theistic evolution. |
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Woops, sorry about the misunderstanding.
I meant evolution / theistic evolution as the same. |
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Reps: 2,087,816,321,146,207 (power: 2,087,816,321,148) | | Originally Posted by Marian Man I'm pretty much an Old Earth Creationist. I believe in a literal Adam and Eve who didn't evolve from monkeys, that the earth is older than a few millennia, etc.
But to be honest I don't have any thing against Young Earth Creationism, that it was as black and white as stated in the Bible. If it was like that then cool. If it wasn't then fine.
For the record, no one says we evolved from monkeys. Nor did we ''evolve from apes" as some would say. Evolutionary biology only says we share a common ancestor with apes (and more distantly, monkeys).
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