And considering the strong link between religion and Goverments , Does this threatens the authority of Goverments?
2007-04-20 05:11:58 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes - to both.
2007-04-20 05:14:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No,
Morality is the Church's department, and every Church can have their own position on creation/evolution and still give God the credit as it sees fit. I don't feel threatened by evolution theory, and it's still theory as long as scientists admit to the gaps in fossil records and their inability to explain the intricate - statistical - near - impossibility of genetic mutation to produce life as we know it. Evolution is better taught in schools, and creation should stay in the church. Each is a valid study. Religion studies in k-12 should be only be part of social studies, as means to understand others.
Government should take the best culture has to offer in both science and religion to make it's laws and maintain its authority. Conflict comes when it devivates from balancing both.
2007-04-20 05:30:19 · answer #2 · answered by dan b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the fact that that Christians believe Jesus was the savior threaten the Buddhists religion? Does the fact that the Jewish religion thinks Christians are wrong threaten the Catholic Church? Of course not. People of faith believe what they believe through faith. Whatever anyone else believes does not change that. I am sure you can find pagan believers that still think the Sun is a god. Does even scientific fact change their belief?
Don't expect religious people to accept a theory. Perhaps both scientist and creationists are correct. Perhaps one complements the other.
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2007-04-20 05:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church separates the evolution of the physique and progression of the soul. "right now, just about a million/2 a century after the booklet of the encyclical, new expertise has delivered approximately the popularity of the concept of evolution as greater advantageous than a hypothesis. that's certainly outstanding that this concept has been steadily widely used by researchers, following a set of discoveries in multiple fields of expertise. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the end results of artwork that develop into performed independently is in itself an significant argument in choose of this concept." that's a quote made by Pope John Paul II. The links decrease than relate to a million. Vatican's perspectives, and a pair of. an define of diverse religions' perspectives on evolution. faith won't cave in in the event that they settle for evolution, only like it did not cave in while they realised that the Earth particularly did revolve around the sunlight.
2016-11-26 00:31:11 · answer #4 · answered by peckham 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
1) Evolution is a theroy, not a proven fact. Evolution cannot explain how the universe happened.
2) Many Christians believe in the evolution of the animal kingdom but the special creation of man.
3) I think the Catholic church teaches that evolution is a fact.
2007-04-20 06:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because there is about as much evidence to support evolution as there is to support creation. Let us not forget; The Bible was written by people, people who are not alive today, and you were not alive back then. So show me solid evidence that those people were NOT trembling in fear at what they THOUGHT was God but was really a volcano or an earthquake and I'll be much more apt to believe it. There are thirteen books in the New Testament believed to have been written by the apostle Paul. NOT ONE exists today which was written by Paul's own hand! They've been copied and re-copied! How can anyone base their life's beliefs on anything so UNsubstantiated?
2007-04-20 05:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you an American? What sort of authority does the church have over 90% of us?
Maybe it works different in the country where you are from...
And I don't know how it would threaten the authority of governments at all.
2007-04-20 05:16:12 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Fluffy Pants 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really, its just a theory. There was obviously small scale evolution to adapt to natural, but the big evolution theory suggests some parts of a species remained intact while parts evolved. There are too many holes.
2007-04-20 05:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes- for (IMHO) 2 reasons.
The first reason is simply that by accepting evolution as the "truth" the Church would have to go back and say that the doctrine preached for hundreds of years is wrong.
Secondly, and more importantly, the Bible says that we are created by God in his image. If the Church were to accept evolution, it would also have to accept that we were not created in God's image - unless God looks like an amoeba...
As far as governments are concerned it would be only be an issue for governments that are truly entangled with the Church (like Italy).
2007-04-20 05:18:23 · answer #9 · answered by Joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
evolution will never threaten God's Word and it's truth of how the world was created
God's Word, will stand until His return ...it is the same today, yesterday, and forever and it stands true and strong all on it's own...it is undebatable, because whether you accept it and believe it or not, it is still the truth and still as powerful as ever!!!!
2007-04-20 05:17:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It shouldn't - it just needs to be treated like the Big Bang Theory - a method that God chose to use that is a mystery to man.
2007-04-20 05:15:53 · answer #11 · answered by Big Super 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋