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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Some folks find it incredible that I believe the Earth is 6,000 years old.

I find it incredible that highly educated people think we evolved from sludge or apes. A keen study of our five senses should end any speculation at once and forever. But they keep believing and promoting a lie from the master of lies.

They are better off believing aliens seeded the planet a long time ago then to indulge in nonsense about evolution.


26 posted on 12/15/2010 5:51:42 AM PST by winodog
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To: winodog
"I find it incredible that highly educated people think we evolved from sludge or apes."

"Which theory of evolution are you talking about?

"...What is the significance of such a theory? To address this question is to enter the field of epistemology.

A theory is a metascientific elaboration distinct from the results of observation, but consistent with them.

By means of it a series of independent data and facts can be related and interpreted in a unified explanation. A theory's validity depends on whether or not it can be verified; it is constantly tested against the facts; wherever it can no longer explain the latter, it shows its limitations and unsuitability. It must then be rethought.

Furthermore, while the formulation of a theory like that of evolution complies with the need for consistency with the observed data, it borrows certain notions from natural philosophy.

And, to tell the truth, rather than the theory of evolution, we should speak of several theories of evolution.

On the one hand, this plurality has to do with the different explanations advanced for the mechanism of evolution, and on the other, with the various philosophies on which it is based.

Hence the existence of materialist, reductionist, and spiritualist interpretations.

What is to be decided here is the true role of philosophy and, beyond it, of theology.

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider _the spirit_ as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person. ..."

Excerpted from:

Theories of Evolution
John Paul II
Copyright (c) 1997 First Things 71 (March 1997): 28-29. Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996

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64 posted on 12/15/2010 6:33:28 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: winodog
They are better off believing aliens seeded the planet a long time ago then to indulge in nonsense about evolution.

If we believed that we would be worse off as the UN would want to send those aliens $100 billion for our wanton destruction of their jobsite.

89 posted on 12/15/2010 7:05:01 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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