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Eh? I've been a Catholic all my life, and I was always taught that evolution was perfectly compatible with my faith. You're thinking of Southern Baptists, Daikun.

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	Fata Morgana wrote:
	Eh? I've been a Catholic all my life, and I was always taught that evolution was perfectly compatible with my faith. You're thinking of Southern Baptists, Daikun.

Doesn't that contradict what the Bible says about God creating man, and all the stuff about Adam and Eve?

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	Fata Morgana wrote:
	Eh? I've been a Catholic all my life, and I was always taught that evolution was perfectly compatible with my faith. You're thinking of Southern Baptists, Daikun.

Doesn't that contradict what the Bible says about God creating man, and all the stuff about Adam and Eve?

Not at all. As my mother is fond of saying, the bible says that God created man, it doesn't pin down what particular methods He employed.

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I'm going to have to disagree with you there. While it may not say how the Bible is pretty clear about the whole within 24 hours thing.

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Agreed. It's also pretty clear about there being no death until Adam & Eve sinned. Since death is the driving factor in natural selection, that pretty much precludes evolution.

	Filbert wrote:
	I'm going to have to disagree with you there. While it may not say how the Bible is pretty clear about the whole within 24 hours thing.

No mention of 24 hours in the Bible. There is a mention of "one day", but that one's pretty easy: the Bible also points out that God's time isn't the same as our time ("a day is like 1,000 years and a 1,000 years is like a day"). For a being outside of time, "day" is pretty gorram malleable.

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	Fata Morgana wrote:
	Not at all. As my mother is fond of saying, the bible says that God created man, it doesn't pin down what particular methods He employed.

This is basically the same exact thing I believe.

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Well the Bible says that plants were created the "day" previous to the sun's creation. That would put a hamper on photosynthesis if a "day" were too long. But either way Catholocism has always seemed to me to put more faith in the Vatican than the Bible anyway, so this probably won't cause any problems.

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The Bible says a lot of things.

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	Erunanton wrote:
	The Bible says a lot of things.

Maybe it never meant any of them? Maybe this time around it'll be different?

lol wut?

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	Fata Morgana wrote:
	Eh? I've been a Catholic all my life, and I was always taught that evolution was perfectly compatible with my faith. You're thinking of Southern Baptists, Daikun.

I never mentioned any religions. I only said it's the Vatican.

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Not widely known or recently discovered, something I just stumbled upon: Interstellar space can contain diffuse substances and radiation as hot as 10000 K. Now when I say diffuse, I mean negligible. Even local space has it.

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