#184910 - 09/11/08 06:17 AM
For Those Who Wish to Understand Evolution
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...whether in order to challenge it or otherwise: http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p15.htm
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#191345 - 10/07/08 05:17 PM
Re: For Those Who Wish to Understand Evolution
[Re: Bravus]
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I like this quote from that link
Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution.
While the story of human origins is complex and subject to revision, physical anthropology and molecular biology combine to make a convincing case for the origin of the human species in Africa about 150,000 years ago in a humanoid population of common genetic lineage. However it is to be explained, the decisive factor in human origins was a continually increasing brain size, culminating in that of homo sapiens. With the development of the human brain, the nature and rate of evolution were permanently altered: with the introduction of the uniquely human factors of consciousness, intentionality, freedom and creativity, biological evolution was recast as social and cultural evolution."
(From the International Theological Commission, headed by then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger -- The Chief Inquisitor and now Pope Benedict XVI, statement "Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God," plenary sessions held in Rome 2000-2002, published July 2004) There is a death-carnage-starvation-extinction-predation history leading right up to the point of humans walking out of hominid caves and into their own caves. They may have been fleeing from sabre-toothed tigers but not from extinct T-Rex in this RCC compatible version of origins and the creation story. And did you notice that bit about "increasing brain size"? Must have been wonderful for those early hominids to sit in classes each day being taught by the massively-brained elephants - (or was it mammoths!)! Elephants who by the way were themselves considering the option of jumping back in the ocean from which they sprang -- and turning into whales. And then of course sometime after that -- one of those early humans sinned while sitting on the floor of his case bashing in his daily ration of monkey-brains! And well - you know the rest regarding how we are all going to finally be able to get back to that paradise home! in Christ, Bob
Edited by BobRyan (10/07/08 05:25 PM)
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