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I defiantely believe in Adam and Eve. Evolution is scientifically prooven to be a fact. Don't tell me it's just a ploy agaisnt religon. No, it's PROOVEN.How can I combine evolution and Adam and Eve while still believing in both?

if evolution is real, why is thier still monkeys? and you cant belive in evolution and god, you just cant

I was always told to believe in both but I didnt think that was resonable so thats why im going to ask about it. Someone once told me "Adam and Eve evolved from monkeys" I told that person she was crazy lol. I only think evolution is real because I have learned and studied it in biology class, thats why I brought the point up. I can study and learn something for a test, but when I go to church its all a lie, thats what I was confused about. Thank you thought(:

The way it needs to be viewed it that like many things look to the world around you. I go into a God that has way more power to show, that there was a plan for you and I to end up the way we are now. That is truly a greater being. Also going all the way back to Pope Puis 12 "There is too much fact in evolution not to believe in it."

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I will say, though, even scientists would disagree that evolution is a proven fact. Very, very few things are proven facts in science. Evolution is a theory, which a lot of anti-evolution folks try to use to discredit it, but they fail to understand that in the scientific world, a theory isn't just a random idea some guy schemed up with little or no evidence. A scientific theory is something that has a great deal of evidence that has been observed, challenged, and reviewed. Gravity is a theory we can observe pretty clearly every day, and yes, it's still the theory of gravity, not the fact of gravity.

Evolution is something that has been extensively observed, challenged, and subjected to review. The evidence supporting it is pretty convincing, and I see no reason why one has to turn a blind eye to the mountain of evidence supporting it if they want to believe in God. Science, including evolution, looks to explain the how. Religion deals with the why. Evolution has been observed. Great! There's no reason that God has to be taken out of the equation. Personally, I believe in evolution, and I believe that God simply controlled the process. As far as I'm aware, the Catholic Church does not condemn the theory of evolution.

I don't understand why so many people feel that their faith is threatened by science. To me, science is just man's way of making sense of the wonders of God's creations. If anything, science honours God by seeking to better understand His work.

That seems to really be grasping at semantic straws to me.

I dabble in music composition. My compositions could be called musical creations, as they were deliberately brought into being by a creator (in this case, yours truly). However, I don't just sneeze onto manuscript paper and magically have a piece of music. I create it one note at a time, each note having to logically follow the one before it and fit properly within my chosen chords, sequences, cadences, etc. It is created intentionally and deliberately, but each note is influenced by what has come before it, and what I plan to put ahead of it.

I'm not trying to literally compare myself to God, obviously, just make the point that creation doesn't have to exist in a vaccuum. It can build off of what has come before it, and prepare for what may come in the future, all in accordance with one greater plan and controlled by a creator.

Aww dang! I was going to write this exact same thing but then I got lazy and forgot to come back to it. lol blaugh

biased? something is biased when it is unreasonable, that article gives many good reasons for what it states, someone is biased when they believe something in an irrational way.
just because someone believes wholeheartedly in something does not make them biased, and in this case, it's because they have studied, made a judgment on the matter, and decided they do not believe in evolution, is that wrong? of course not, and would you call them biased if they went the other way entirely?
being sure of yourself does not make you biased.

and what about these fossils they found? as if there's never been extinct animals before,
i've heard both sides, and the idea of evolution is just ridiculous to me, not to mention more and more scientists are coming out and saying that it's just not possible,
there are to many holes in the theory of evolution, it just doesn't add up,

but like i said before, i really don't care, this is not something of dire importance unless it's the reason someone doesn't believe in God...then i'd take it more seriously, not that i won't debate it, but what i mean is, i don't think it's a sin to believe in it, but i personally have my reasons not to.
i believe God created man from nothing, just as the bible says "from the slime of the earth"
even Blessed Ann Catherine Emmerich saw it the way the bible says, only in greater detail of course, and i believe very much in her visions, i believe in them because of the high sanctity and holiness of her life, the high degree of her virtues, and although she considered herself a wrenched and sinful creature, there are no known mortal sins that she has committed, and very few venial ones(ones we would hardly give any thought to)...anyways, before i get off subject talking about her life :3
that is what i believe...and i put my trust in Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich much more than i put it in a bunch of scientists whose names and lives i know nothing of...
and while i don't believe in evolution for human beings, i know there is evolution in other ways, such as germs, bugs, plants, but it happens in a different sense than what the theory of human evolution claims.

anyways, it's nothing to get upset over, and those articles are no more biased about it than i am, and maybe if you read through them entirely it might change your mind.