Khun_Kong Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 ...the church's apology will focus on how wrong it was for senior bishops in the past to misunderstand and attack Darwin's theory about man being descended from apes. Link If they think this is what Darwin said, then they still don't have a clue. Darwin: Man/ape have common ancestor. And his theory was not evolution. His theory was about natural selection. Evolution = change in allelic frequencies. Indisputable. Unless you're the moron running as the US Veep candidate. :stir-the-pot: :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 << Darwin: Man/ape have common ancestor. >> I think he was my Army drill sergeant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AF16 Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Heartening to see that amongst the increased fanaticism of Christianity there still are some sane ones out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Galileo also got a pardon from the Roman Catholic Church from the pope. Not the one in Rome now, but the one before. I think he also recognized the theory of evolution as being more than a hypothesis. So they seem to be more progressive on that issue than their fundamentalist brethren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTO Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I've never seen anything about Islamic's being anti evolutionist. However I was surprised to learn that Evolution was being taught for the first time in Greek schools only recently! Seems they have always been along with Orthadox Christians very much into the bible version of events, whatever that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTO Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I was wrong - seems they can believe in evolution but only where it doesn't involve humans 5 5 5 5 As for the fossil remains of bipedal apes and the tools and artifacts associated with those remains, their existence poses no problem for Islamic teachings. There is nothing in the Quran and Sunnah that either affirms or denies that upright, brainy, tool using apes ever existed or evolved from other apelike ancestors. Such animals may very well have existed on Earth before Adamâ??s arrival upon it. All we can draw from the Quran and Sunnah is that even if those animals once existed, they were not the forefathers of Adam (peace be upon him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 << I've never seen anything about Islamic's being anti evolutionist. >> A Pakistani colleague once told me the vast majority of Muslims are creationists ("borrowed" right out of Genesis). http://www.answering-christianity.com/evolution.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTO Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I looked up a few places on the web and it seems you can be a evolutionist about everything else except people - which a very odd take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Where's my apology for all the latent life issues I have due to their scaring the hell (literally and figuretively) out of a little boy in a southern baptist upbringing? I still can't watch scary movies. Revelations...oh, that book was as bad as a scary movie to a 7 y.o.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 It made me laugh! I was young... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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