Why has my family's DNA been traced back to Africa...?

Question

To a time before your bible claims that man came into existence?

And please don't tell me this is devil propoganda.

Answer 1

It must be because the first cell randomly came to life and "found shelter" in Africa from all the green house gases and acid rains that cooled the lava but now threatens to warm the earth.

This cell "discovered" it needed to change light into food so it changed its DNA so it could live. Not having the time to let evolution to cure its hunger, the first single cell had to take care of the problem of eating by itself.

Then it "discovered" it was going to die. So it changed its DNA so it could reproduce. Not having the time to let evolution to cure the problems of death, the first single cell had to take care of the problem of learning how to reproduce by itself.

Then, this "logical single cell" thought through the problem of overpopulation caused by just having one species. So once again this logic defying cell not only created cells that would mutate and learn to live off its own waste but to eat the original species as food....and so the "delicate balance of nature" came to be.

Even though every other thing in science moves from order to chaos, life, through this one cell, not only created the cause and effect chain to us today, but also had the foresight to stop the evolutionary process once man evolved.

If this wasn't so, then we would be looking for the same force that caused different cells to work together to make an extremely complex organism like man to continue unaltered today!

And since this force was able to put together something as complex as man from a single cell, through the survial of the fittest process of evolution, peace on earth is actually occurring.

You just have see the cause and effect chain of events call the "evolutionary process" to believe.

Answer 2

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.