2007-04-10 09:09:47 · 7 answers · asked by terrrry s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A tiny minority may believe that, but most do not, and it is not a teaching of the Church.
2007-04-10 09:13:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics including the POPE believe in evolution. That would put the human animal more than 20,000 maybe hundreds of thousand years ago.
Only a A small group pf people believe that six thousand years ago humans were created.
That is based on counting the Age of Adam and his sons and grandsons and Noah, and Moses and his family through out the bible.
It takes some careful reading but you can actually count up the 6 thousand years by reading and paying attention to Biblical dates.
It is up to you if you believe it or not But my guess is pretty good that very few Catholics have ever tried to read the Bible or to understand its verses beyond what the PRIEST tells them they can read. So No, Catholics do not think Humans were created by god 6000 years ago
2007-04-10 09:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by bugsie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some might but most do not.
The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.
One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.
Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.
On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:
The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.
Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html
The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.
As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-10 16:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It more a USA fundies belief. Remember that in the 1990, the Pope apologized about the way Galileo had been treated by the church and said that the findings of modern science were acceptable. The catholic church moved forward. the american fundies are stuck in the dark ages.
2007-04-10 09:18:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just the "early earth" people. But once they gave us a fixed date (of 6000/8000) we slaughtered them scientifically. Make posters of them to hand out to children instead of jokebooks. The whole works, so they generally refrain from being specific (apparently, it's all a metaphor).
2007-04-10 09:14:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some do, some believe the universe was created via the big bang. Catholicism is open to both beliefs.
2007-04-10 09:14:48 · answer #6 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
why yes because God made them for earth how else was man made
2007-04-10 09:50:42 · answer #7 · answered by wkerr99_20 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋