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Allend, Truth exists (Jesus personifies it). Trying to water it down or synthesize it is always a dangerous exercise. Scripture is Truth. Synthesis is just another word for lie when one is speaking of scripture. Darwinian theory is atheistic in its roots and philosophy - trying to mix it with Truth is pure heresy. Darwinists laugh at the idea of "theistic evolution." It's an oxymoron. Catholics started this type of synthesis with Aquinas when he tried to reconcile Scripture with Aristotle - didn't work. Aristotle was a pagan. Pagans cannot see the truth as they are spiritually blind. What Aquinas succeeded in doing was drawing attention to the natural world (aristotlean)and way from revelation. From this grew the humanism of the Rennaissance, followed by the Enlightenment, etc. as man sunk further and further into humanism and confusion. Look at Michaelangelo's David statue (this is not the jewish David - statue not circumcised). The statue depicts the pre-eminence of man - look at the oversized hands and posture - man can do anything apart from God!