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God did not make a wind-up toy called evolution, set it on the ground and let it do whatever it wanted.
He sustains His Creation continually.
He sustains His Creation continually.
No, that's not accurate. Too many people believe "evolution" occurred,
and with zero input from God. Zero.
It's a self-starting, self-sustaining engine. Not true.
You divert and can continue to divert. What you appear to be unable to admit is that the Biology textbook is all a lot of people get.
And God is not needed.
evolution is a purely non-God concept.
You keep saying wrong things and ignoring the obvious.
The Biology textbook tells students about evolution - as an ATHEIST concept.
Abiogenesis is not a fact.
No scientist can create life in the lab.
I was curious as to how divided posters are on this topic. As a former Catholic, now Lutheran, (who is still unsure if I’m in the right church) I learned from the writings and some communication via email with Edward Feser, that humans may have started as part of a population of hominids but that God gave Adam and Eve souls, making them human. Then their offspring interbred with these other hominids and so on. I’m probably oversimplifying Feser’s theory and it’s been a long time since I’d read it, but what are your thoughts on this idea?
Or do you believe we came from Adam and Eve, whose children interbred with one another and so on?
Other theories?
Adam & Eve ... one either believes the creation account as written or not ...
I think people question it drawn astray by evolution theory.
There's a lot of disagreements among Christians as to how it was written. If it was clearly one thing or the other, there wouldn't be disagreements.
Given that St. Augustine remarked that it couldn't be a literal history, and some of his contemporaries said that it is a literal history, I'd say you were wrong.
Sure ... understand .... this is the Catholic point of view.
Christian. There were no Protestants or Catholics back then. They were all Christians.
I agree. All discoveries and inventions were seen as impossible at one time or another.God says it is. The evidence from science says it is. Your opinion notwithstanding.
One theologian said that not even God could make a triangle with interior angles summing to any other value than 180 degrees. Sometime later, mathematicians did just that. What if scientists someday can build a living thing from scratch?
Supporting God on what man cannot yet do, is a very unwise strategy.
Did St. Augustine retract his beliefs in the Catholic faith at the end of his life?
He remained faithful to the Church. There were no Protestants then.
The Protestant Reformation happened because it was needed and God set it in motion.
Until then ..... Sola Scriptura
Martin Luther wasn't God.
The Bible itself rejects Sola Scriptura:
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
God Himself says that the Bible is not the only source of authority about Him.
I said God set the reformation in motion.
Romans 1:20 refers to the world’s creation and its created works. Paul’s argument is that God can be known through creation.
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition,
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