Pope: Creation vs. evolution clash an ‘absurdity’

saying that evolution can coexist with faith.

THANK YOU! This is what I've been saying on all these FR evolution debates. The Church accepts evolution as a theory. The earth is not 6000 years old, come on the fossil record proves that wrong. God created the first pre-Cambrian slime, and from that created the rest of life via what we call evolution. As far as humans go, I'm not a theologian so I'll say no more than we were created by God in His image. But have you noticed that the description of creation in the Bible is in striking similarity to the order that life evolved on earth? First He created the seas--water was present on earth before life. Then He created the sea creatures--they were the first forms of life to appear on earth. He created the bacteria first, then the fishes and vertebrates perhaps by having them evolve from the bacteria. Then He created the plants on the land--plants colonized land early while there was still sea life. Then He created the land animals--as we see, the lizards and dinosaurs and insects came first, then the mammals. Again, perhaps He differentiated life on land through what we see as evolution, but it is called "created" in the Bible, because He did create them--by having them evolve from other animals. And lastly, He created man. And man has only been around for a million years or so. I'm not saying this is THE way it happened, I am only speculating as to why the Church does accept evolution as a theory and doesn't reject it instead. They can coexist.

I refuse to bet my future on the astronomical odds that the infinitely complex human body is a result of random mutatations from non life. That idea breaks the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, breaks the law of common sense and is for the mathematically challenged.

Have you ever considered reading up on biology and how evolution is changing life on earth?

“Have you ever considered reading up on biology and how evolution is changing life on earth?”

What do you mean by “evolution”? People use that term in many different ways. Some definitions are easily proven and others are a pipe dream.

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