Re: Proof Catholics Are Better at Doublespeak
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So did we get from monkeys to humans entirely by natural processes, or has God interfered with physical processes to direct it? It's one or the other.
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Or both. Occasional interventions. And since God has foreknowledge, He knew what the natural process of evolution would bring about and what it might not.
Your monkey to human line indicates you don't believe in evolution I take it. Both monkeys and humans descend from common primate anscestors. And the infusion of a soul in humans is strictly by God.
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Please decipher this statement for me. He allows and participates but doesn't intervene??
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The quote said "continually". Thus occasional interventions are part of what he meant. And God's permissive will allows all that is not the result of a specific "interference".
What the Holy Father meant was that evolution is not the either/or situation you are trying to make it to be in order to make your point. Thus a guided evolution, in a process mosly but not totally the result of normal evolutionary processes is what he is stating is the case. And Cardinal
Schoenborn's opinions are entirely his own.
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