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In the article "EVOLUTION: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE", James B. Stenson had written, "A Catholic should suspect, therefore, even before studying the question closely, that faith and scientific knowledge must complement, not contradict, each other" (EWTN). This can be interpreted as another way of saying that science and faith work together and not against what each other is teaching. Evolution does not contradict what the church teaches and is excepted by many Catholic leaders of the faith. This fact can be proven through what evolution is, what the church teaches, and common misconceptions. Before evolution can be critiqued within its aspects of Catholicism, it must be understood. The pure definition of evolution is commonly misunderstood. Most peoples' definition of evolution is vaguely related to a few separate meanings. This word should show a biological concept that is based on cautious scientific study from multiple interconnected disciplines. However, by extending this term, there have also been uses for evolution in other senses such as sociological, historical, and philosophical. The main complications that people find with Catholicism are found in the …show more content…

Pope Francis had explained it in a speech by saying that God had created man, but that does not mean that humans cannot be able to grow, change, and evolve naturally as their environment changes. Pope Francis also said, "God is not... a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life” (The Washington Post). God created all life, but that life can adapt to each of their environmental conditions as the earth continues to change as well. In order for evolution to take place, a population must have the ability to be able to change. However, the pope does try to avoid the issue that concerns humans having been descended from apes as it can be a tough and quite heated subject to

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Roman Catholics should not fall for this belief for a number of reasons that O’Callaghan outlines. Firstly, it equates the power of God as creator to the principles of nature and natural science. It also seems to suggest that in whatever science can explain, God is not involved. Following that, it would seem that the more we learn about the natural world, the more reason there is to abandon the existence of God.

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Scientists made new discoveries while doing experiments and using the scientific method during the Scientific Revolution. Some of there discoveries contradicted what the Roman Catholic Church beliefs. For example, the church believes that God created heavens and the earth, but scientists it’s a bit more complicated then that. Scientists had proof that some things in the bible weren’t true or possible, which caused the church’s people to questions its truth. Scientists are attempting to prove the truth about science, which so happen to threaten the Church.

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In another example of Brady’s misconception about his study of the bible and evolution, Brady says, “I say that these Bible- haters, these ‘Evil-ution,’ are brewers of poison” (70). Every one has their own faith in what they believe and Brady should not force people to believe in what he believes in. Brady is wrong when he is trying to get people think of evolution is wrong and his knowledge of the bible is right. He argues against the teaching of evolution because in the theory of Darwin about human transformation.

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God is allowing change to occur autonomously and with his permission. This thinking process allows for the idea of free will that is a basic tenet in Judeo/Christian faiths. Many religious leaders maintain that religion and evolution are not incompatible. The basis of life religious creation cannot be fully explained by the scientific method.

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As written in bible, animals were created on the sixth day before humans were created on the seventh day. In the pragmatic examination and observation of scientists, there were dinosaurs long before humans appeared. Bones, habitats ,etc were all realistic evidences for the theory of dinosaurs. He also raised the point of Pangaea. Humans were all the same, however, after the breaking up of the continents, evolution happened and some people had darker skin.

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Betz then explains the contradictions between evolution theory and some fundamental Christian beliefs.

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Over the eras, many scientists have expressed concerns with Darwin's evolution theory and in "Was Darwin Wrong?" by David Quammen one can learn about the proof behind the theory of evolution. Many people do not believe in evolution due to an overall unawareness about the theory and religious upbringing. However, Quammen clarifies the truth behind evolution in his article. The article states five positions of evidence biogeography, embryology, morphology, paleontology, and the bacterial resistance to antibiotics discovered in humans.

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Have you considered additional ancillary texts to help you? An additional ancillary source is “Evolution and Religion Can Coexist.” This article explains that religion and science are able to balance each other in principles or theories. The author states, “Religion is about ethics, or what you should do, while science is about what’s true.

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The theory of evolution first came to be during the 19th century by a man called Darwin. Darwin also published a book related on the theory of evolution called “On the Origin of Species”. At first this theory was mocked, this was because during the 19th century majority of the people in Europe especially England were practicing Christians and they despised the theory because it questioned the power of god and if he created all life on earth or not. However as time progressed this theory started to become more widely accepted as science had improved over the years and scientists could find links between humans and our ancestors that we may have originated from. Obstacles for the theory were hat during the 19th century science was not as advance as it is in the present day and also they didn’t have the technology to prove that humans had links to ancestors before.

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Dixon In 1950, in the encyclical “Humani Generis”, Pope Pius XII said that Catholic lessons on Creation could coexist with Evolutionary Theory. Pope John Paul II went a tad further in 1996, calling Evolution “more than a hypothesis.” In many circumstances, Creationism has refuted scientific theories and has unraveled the lot that science, in most schools has taught us about human derivation. Evolution and Creation are two of the most common theories of human origin, although numerous religious people believe in Creation, the bible’s timeline does not match up with the scientific timeline, humans have not existed in their existing form since “the beginning”, and Creationism continually rejects itself, for these reasons Creationism should be

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An article that explores the idea that it is okay for Catholic Christians to believe in evolution is Pope Francis says evolution is real and God is no wizard (2014) by The Washington Post. Evolution is the theory that all kinds of living organisms are thought to be evolved from previous species. “He (God) created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one of us, so they would reach their fulfillment.” The quote by Pope Francis explains what his take is on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

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I am a man of science and I believe that science and religion can be used together for research and not to be used as separate entities. I am in favor of good strong scientific evidence. When using the inductive method, for scientific research, gives the best science. Darwin uses the speculative method, which gives poor science. Darwin’s work was pure

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Evolutionary biology is a conceptual subfield of biology that seeks to explain the origin and diversification of life. The sub-field formally began when Charles Darwin demonstrated that all organism share a common ancestry and that the key mechanism of evolution is natural selection. While no universally accepted definition exists, ‘Darwinism’ can loosely be defined as a theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Robert Darwin and his contemporaries, thats states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase an individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce (The American Heritage Dictionary, 2000). Although ‘natural selection’ is typically prized

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Furthermore, an intriguing fact is that a catholic priest chose to go beyond the usual accepted concept of the creation of the universe as well as his own christian values and challenged the beliefs which many held as to how the universe developed into how it is known today. Moreover, today, the pope supports the belief “in a supernatural God who is responsible for the existence of the universe, while our science tells us how he did it" (Pope Francis, 2017). Thus, proving that there could be a connection between god and the big bang theory. The church supports the belief that as long as Catholics believe that humans were created by god and not due to natural attributes, there should not be a collision between the Catholic principles and the big bang

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The simple answer is this-evolution doesn 't exist (Adamson 3). Although, the question of where we came from still remains. The only logical answer is the existence of a creator. If a creator exists then that means the biblical story of the creation in genesis is true. In genesis 1:1 it says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

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