don't cha think evolutionist and creationist are both stupid ?

Question

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Answer 1

No, and you are skirting the edge of a violation here, with the "details" line. Only because you did not complete the sentence, it squeaks by.

Evolutionists have scientific evidence on their side. Creationists have a book which has not been updated significantly for a couple thousand years, and in my opinion was never intended to be taken literally even then. The idea that the Bible is "literal truth" is to blame. It creates all sorts of intellectual dissonance which gets worse the longer scientific evidence is gathered.

While it is rude to call anyone stupid, it has far less validity about evolutionists than it does about creationists.

Answer 2

No.

I think most Evolutionists and most Creationist are very sincere people.

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.