Evolution: Myth or Real?

Question

I am Catholic so I think it's a myth. What about you?

Answer 1

well why do we have tailbones? of course we evolved there's no question ALSO for one of the first people who said we have "stoppd evolving" we have gotton so much taller these past centuries. Also is has only been so many years since we have had good quality pictures of ourselves. it's not like one day you'll wake up and suddently not have an appendix it takes thousands and thousands of years

Answer 2

You've inadvertently pinpointed the source of your problem. You have used the words "catholic" and "think" in the same sentence.

That's a little like including the words forehead and frying pan in the same sentence.

Answer 3

Evolution is going on around us every single day. More than 5000 species a day become extinct as they can no longer survive and around the same number of species that are discovered daily are documented as well. The bible is a wonderful book to live by, but some of the stories have deeper meanings and have alter meanings than just the way it reads. I would suggest that you stop taking the bible for face value and look behind the words... be a real catholic and learn what it really means. If the stories were true then where did the people who Adam and Eves children eventually mate with come from .... was it incest?

Answer 4

That doesn't follow at all.  Pope John Paul II realized that evolutionary theory is one of the most widely-proven theories in science, way back in 1996.  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects...

Pope Benedict, who is more conservative than his predecessor, also acknowledges all of the evidence in favor of evolution: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0...

Both of these men realized that the theory of evolution does not preclude faith in God.  As a Catholic, you should have no problem with this.  If you have a _personal_ problem, that's different.  All I can suggest is that you read up on evolution, from the perspective of the actual scientists who study this.  Usually, creationists trying to argue against evolution have their facts wrong, so they aren't a good resource. This is a good website, and they also have a reading list: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-...

Answer 5

it is scientific theory.  that means its not myth or fact.  there are many observed forms of evolution you can watch during your life span.   birds often change beak shapes in accordance with the food that is available.  

scientific theory is just a way of attempting to explain something by human observation.  

myth is closer aligned with religion -- you have nothing to observe but stories passed down from generation to generation.

Answer 6

myth, to me it dosn't make sense,

if evolution did happen it seems like it has stoped for some reason.

Answer 7

I think that you should learn more about the teachings of the Catholic Church.  While everything is ultimately ascribed to God, including the special soul of man, there is an acknowledgement that God's plan can include evolution.

This is the church that excommunicated Galileo because the higher-ups did not want to consider the possibility that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not vice versa.  Oops.  The church hierarchy is more careful not to repudiate science so quickly these days.

Answer 8

very real.It's amazing that people still in this day and age have to still wonder if evolution is "myth or real" that was the 20th century. Lets move on with the time. And figure out somthing important.

Answer 9

I think all those skeletons are trying to tell us something.  The Bible was written so long ago-before the idea of evolution could be addressed-maybe there is a way it is supposed to work together but the writers of the Bible didn't understand the concept.  I think when the proof is in front of you, it is foolish to put your head in a book and ignore the facts.  I think that you shouldn't have to choose one or the other but that a better explanation is out there somewhere.

Answer 10

You've likely heard that evolution is a "theory," and you think that's a synonym for "myth."  But in science, the word "theory" doesn't mean conjecture or speculation.  It means that a principle is plausible, that it is scientifically acceptable, that it has been tested.  So, your question of whether evolution is "Myth or Real" doesn't make any sense.  It's a theory.

And as for Catholicism's influence on your feelings toward evolution (and probably Anthropology and Paleontology in total), you should know that many of the early workers in the field, the ones who used to dig up the bones (you should read the story of Mary Anning, the fossil-hunter), were deeply religious.  They saw uncovering what lay in the Earth as a way to be closer to God's creation, a way of appreciating it.  If your religion teaches you to turn your back on the planet, the soil, the land-- the home God gave you, according to Christianity-- don't you think there's something wrong with it?  Why do so many religious people these days assume that loving the Earth, and learning from it, goes against their faith?

I encourage you to read Mary Anning's biography, from her early years as a religious person, to her later years when she felt disillusioned, and see what you think.  You might decide to stick with your current opinions (that's up to you, of course), but at least read about evolution, read about the history of Christianity and Christians' relation to evolution, and make sure that your opinions are educated.

Answer 11

that';s funny, the catholic church accepted it 15 years ago, now they don't??!

LOL, get your facts straight on your own.

Answer 12

Myths don't have bones.

Answer 13

Evolution is the change over time.  Animals have changed over time as is proven beyond any reasonable doubt by the fossil record.  I would call it a fact.

Answer 14

Me thinks Ya need to be a doin much more readin before Ya come down on a point like evolution, no matter what religious sooth-sayers are a sayin.

What think?

Jim D

Answer 15

Traditional Navajo culture is not only removed from ours by space and geography but by time as well. It is a neolithic culture but yet they can move comfortably between the two so that they can give both a scientific explanation of their geographic origins but a conflicting (to us) religious one. You should be able to do the same.

Answer 16

Obviously, it is real or else we would still be monkeys, and gorillas. Hanging around trees all day not caring about anything, just where our next meal is coming from and other mindless things. Oh-wait, we do that already. My bad!

Answer 17

Most Catholics do not believe in a literal translation of the Bible.

The pope believes in evolution, with God creating the universe and letting creation unfold for mankind.

Catholic universities are world famous for research into the fundamental structures and explanations of the universe.  Vatican astronomers have faith and follow scientific method and logic.

Catholic ideology has not been literal for centuries.

Sorry.  Evolution is science.  Science runs your car, your computer and the drugs that cure your ailments.  You can not pick and choose.  Science is real.  

God is myth.

Answer 18

The jury is still out on this one, if we descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? And why are there not all stages between us and monkeys?