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To: Natural Law

Had you no answers to these questions?

1703 Endowed with “a spiritual and immortal” soul,5 the human person is “the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake.”6

The word ‘endowed’, does this described an evolutionary ‘leap’ that gave man something divine? By its very definition, something that is endowed comes from something. We were endowed, at our Creation (not at some point in our evolution) with our spiritual and immortal soul.

So, where in the evolutionary ladder of things did the soul appear? Neanderthal? Ardi? The Lemur? At what point, in your version of Gods evolutionary plan, did man evolve enough to be endowed?

Really, Natural Law, is man divine or just an accident in the giant dice game of the cosmos?


2,141 posted on 12/14/2009 8:14:19 AM PST by RoadGumby (God did not evolve mankind from pond scum, but it might be easy to think that about liberals)
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To: RoadGumby
"Really, Natural Law, is man divine or just an accident in the giant dice game of the cosmos?"

What exactly is your question? Do I or the Catholic Church believe in abiogenesis? The answer is a resounding No!. Do I or the Catholic Church believe that man is special and created in God's image with a soul, reason, and free will? The answer is a responding YES! Do I or the Catholic Church believe that God created the sciences and used them to bring forth life and the variety of life and used it to allow life to flourish in a dynamic environment? The answer is yes.

On these things the Church and I have been very clear.

2,146 posted on 12/14/2009 8:24:03 AM PST by Natural Law
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