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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism'' if it ignores scientific reason.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments at a news conference on a Vatican project to help end the "mutual prejudice'' between religion and science that has long bedeviled the Catholic Church and is currently part of the evolution debate in the United States.

The Vatican project was inspired by Pope John Paul II's 1992 declaration that the church's 17th Century denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension.'' Galileo was condemned for supporting Nicholas Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun; church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.

"The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue..."

2007-10-25 03:43:49 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Psychology

If you believe in that God created the Universe, then how do you explain evolution?

2007-10-25 03:45:39 · update #1

31 answers

Basically there are two types of people in the world, those who believe in God and those who believe there is no God. There are many religions in the world but that is not the point of this debate.
The question was, if you believe God created the Universe How do you explain evolution?
First of all you talk of evolution as if it were fact. Last time I checked it was still a theory, not proven fact. It is however taught as fact. But any way back to the point,
What a person believes determines his/her value set, what they chose to live their life by. If you believe in God and submit to His authority then you live your life according to the principles found in the bible.
People who do not want to live according to Gods Principles must reject that there is a God, if you do not reject that there is a God then you must realize that there will be retribution for your wrong against His principles.
If you do not believe in God there has to be some viable reason as to why, how, when, and where we came from. Until Darwin's Theory there was nothing that could really answer these Questions. With the new theory there seemed to be plausibility to these questions and it took off like wild fire.

Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked;" This is the state of mankind without God.
One thing I have noticed as a parent is how true this is. Children by nature will lie and be deceitful. Even when I have witnessed what has happened they will still LIE. That is HUMAN NATURE.
Mankind is wicked by nature and if there is a God then they stand in condemnation. No one likes to be condemned.
This is why evolution is so popular; it allows you to do what ever you want in life without penalty. If there is no God then there is no eternal punishment for not heeding His Commands. Therefore you have no inhibitions in your lifestyle and how you chose to live. You can just go for it whenever wherever however.
One glaring problem in the belief of evolution that no one ever talks about is if you believe in evolution there is no eternity. NO AFTER LIFE. According to the theory everything just happened. No external power putting things in order. If this is true then at death that’s it. You are done there is no more.
Problem, almost everyone believes in some type of after life, why? Ecc 3:11 says “He has put eternity in their hearts"
Man, created by an eternal being has the Character of an eternal being. It is intrinsic and if you do not believe in God you can not explain it.
Evolution exists because it allows people to be God Free and live according to each ones own desires.

For some serious thought and insight you should check out the video privileged planet

2007-10-25 06:22:35 · answer #1 · answered by bkb_2_98 2 · 1 1

I stopped believe once I've read the entire bible.

Gods are a creating of the mankind in order to try to explain things they do not know about yet or in times in order to justify their own actions.

I believe I am a primate and an evolved form of monkey.

Whoever says that the original monkey is still on earth should get real coz with evolution, the original monkey is gone since thousands and thousands of years. When you look at yourself, and then at a monkey, you've gotta admit that you just look the same with less fur.

And some forms of monkeys are currently evolving too. Some are creating tools, some are cleaning their food. We were just the one that survived at the end. There is more than a part of monkeys in the evolution. Homo Sapiens could not procreate with Homo Neanderthal, coz they were two species. But we survived and they didnt.

One day the church will admit it is right, just like that the earth is round.

2007-10-25 03:55:36 · answer #2 · answered by apocaliste 2 · 1 1

God created the universe AND evolution takes place.

This is not as tough a concept as one might think. Does this mean that reasoning, thinking man developed into what we are by chance from a blob of primordial snot? I don't think so.I believe there must have been an intelligence beyond our own behind our creation.

On the other side of the coin: Do creatures (including humans) develop and evolve based upon the conditions where they exist (ie desert, forest, mountain)? Sure they do.

And what puts this at odds with creation? Nothing. So you see, you don't have to choose between God and evolution- you can have both, kind of like a philosophical peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

2007-10-25 03:54:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

How do you explain evolution. How do you explain the perfect balance between oxygen and carbon so you can breath. How do you explain the perfect distance of the earth and the Son so we dont fry. How do you explain not floating from the surface of the earth because of gravity. Its explained by measures and ideas that scientist and scholars keep on projecting. I am not against evolution I just think it exist because not all think the same. Its what makes the world great and the same time cruel. So evolution of people and nature through natural selection I do believe I JUST dont believe in just things came about because of explosions and etc. Think about it if we came from the monkey how come there are no more monkeys evolving into humans.

2007-10-25 04:12:18 · answer #4 · answered by Dude.. 4 · 0 1

Evolution

2007-10-25 03:47:03 · answer #5 · answered by Will 3 · 0 0

Honestly, I could care less what the Pope says. That said, I believe in both: God AND evolution. The two concepts are in no way exclusive of one another. The idea that they are incompatible is a myth perpetrated by far left fundamental atheists and far right fundamentalist religious fanatics.

2007-10-25 03:47:15 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1 0

One could ask, "Whose to say God didn't use Evolution to create life?"
When history tells us that people put limits on God and his capabilities or methods, they get into trouble.
When they say that the immaculate conception is impossible, how is it that the creator of the universe has ANY limits? Much less creating a microscopic bit of DNA in an egg-cell in a womb?
This sounds so silly, but you get the same mentality over and over again limiting the limitless power of our God.
He destroys, and makes alive.
He is the eternal, the Alpha and Omega
Our God is a living fire.
Who can save the damned from his mighty hand?
God is my God, and yours too. You may not believe in Him,
But He believes in you.

2007-10-25 04:28:42 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1 1

Catholicism is just another cult that does not offer a true path to heaven if you believe what the bible says. Ignore the pope.

If there was no creation, then there was no original sin, which eliminates the wages of sin is death, which eliminates the need for God to come to earth in the form of Jesus and die for us on the cross. Pretty simple actually. This is why Christians can not accept the theory of evolution in any form. Might as well toss the bible out the window if you do. Well, that and the fact that there is no valid proof of evolution, in my opinion.

2007-10-25 03:50:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Why does is have to be one or the other? That's why this argument drives me crazy. Why couldn't God create the universe and put evolution into effect as a means to adapt to one's environment? But to think that complex organisms like man were created totally by accident is a huge stretch of of the imagination. Like putting metal and plastic together in a bucket and hoping that a watch might evolve out of it eventually.

The evolution theory does not explain how "life" actually began out of the soup from which the first organisms were created. And to think that these one celled organisms suddenly developed the ability to divide and replicate themselves. All by accident? Just how does that happen?

2007-10-25 04:01:55 · answer #9 · answered by nureal1 2 · 2 2

I don't know, but evolution just doesn't make sense. It is so illogical that I cannot believe people still believe in it. It has become like a religion in and of itself. The unbelievable complexity of the human body, or the ecosystem in general, just couldn't be the result of random chances and big fish eating small fish. Think about it. Sure, maybe if you put an infinite amount of monkeys in a room with an infinite amount of typewriters one of them would eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare, but it would take a hell of a long time, much longer than life on Earth has supposedly been evolving.

2007-10-25 03:53:24 · answer #10 · answered by Max 3 · 0 3

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