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To: LovedSinner
Then we need to define evolution.

In the current debate between creationism and evolution, evolution removes God from the equation.

It presumes humans are not created in the image of God, but rather, we've "worked" our way up from little microbes to where we are today.

However, the catechism of the catholic church, which is the "official" teaching of the catholic church says Genesis is symbolic regarding the six days of creation.

CCC 337 God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.

I'm not sure how you can square away a literal adam and eve with symbolic days as the NT testifies to the accuracy of Genesis.

Evolution would have to deny Genesis.

34 posted on 10/26/2015 12:28:40 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

The image of God most strongly speaks to our souls, not our bodies nearly as much.

We believe God was guiding things along the way. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Catholics are not deists who believe that God created the world and then sat back and did nothing from them on. So if evolution is true, God would have to be guiding it. (And remember, Catholics can believe in creationism too!)


38 posted on 10/26/2015 12:38:07 PM PDT by LovedSinner
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