Catholics believe that God is the primary cause of all existence. However, Catholics theologians as far back as Thomas Aquinas have maintained that God had could have employed any method or combination of methods to cause the existence of the universe. He could have chosen to execute a certain plan at the beginning of the universe which had preordained results without further need of manipulation as provided by the Theory of Evolution. He may have chosen to guide the development by periodic assistance as in the Theory of Intelligent Design. None of these theories deny the existence of the Uncaused Cause of existence.
While it is true that the Theory of Evolution can be squared with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, the theory itself cannot be harmonized with known scientific truths. In this, the Theory of Evolution is more an imaginary narrative than any likely fact. Far from being a scientific truth, the Theory of Evolution is the result of speculation gone awry and bad scientific reasoning. Science has been done a great disservice by the practitioners of this craft whose wild unsubstantiated assumptions, presumptions and hypotheses have been neither tempered by simple logic nor biological facts observable in nature.
Within most given species there exist many genetic variations which provide differing advantages for survival. Given certain regional environmental conditions, a certain genetic variation within a species would perhaps have a greater advantage for survival than another genetic variation. Savannah elephants and forest elephants can be provided as proof of such natural selection within a species. These microevolutions are entirely within the known laws of science as all these variations are still elephants. Their genetic structure is fairly similar but has morphed to better suit their respective habitats. Scientists speculate that the divergent forms of the forest and savannah elephants have been a 1,000,000 years in the making.
Now take canis lupes familiaris, better known as the domestic dog. The diminutive Chihuahua, the mighty Irish wolfhound, and the fearsome wolf are members of a single species. The immense genetic variation within the species was taken full advantage of and selectively, bred the wolf to suit human needs or purposes: human intelligent design. Human beings accomplished this in perhaps 10,000 years of wolf domestication. The capacity for all these genetic variations existed within the species right from the beginning.
We are fairly certain that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Life, we are told began 3 billion years ago as single-celled organisms. The age of the earth does not provide enough time for evolution to occur even when overlooking the inherent genetic improbabilities and random mutations the theory assumes. The Intelligent Design Theory attempts to correct this obvious inconsistency by attempting to introduce goal directed evolution.
Attempting to explain macroevolution using Darwin’s theory on the other hand is asinine. The “scientific” community would have us believe that birds evolved from reptiles. Reptilians have a bladder type lung system whereas birds have the bellow type lung system. There is no plausible evolutionary intermediary lung system which can provide a transition between reptiles and birds. The scientific community oftentimes rebuts arguments against macroevolution by saying that given enough time anything is possible. Taking that type of nonsensical argument to its proper conclusion a woman should be able to give birth to an elephant someday. We know that is impossible. Given enough time the impossible can never become possible. An ancient coelacanth did not one day venture onto land one day and give rise to the elephant, the wolf or a human being a billion years later. This type of morphology requires extraordinary intervention as that coelacanth did not wander on to land bearing the genetic code needed to evolve a duckbilled platypus never mind a human being one day in the future. That is unless, of course, you believe in miracles.
Going on an expedition, digging up the fossil of some bipedal ape missing three-quarters of its fossilized skeletal structure and retaining less than an eighth of its skull and calling it Lucy, the human ancestor, just does not make good science. One might speculate and collect evidence but what evidence scientists provide on her behalf is speculative at best. While the “scientific” collective may bob their heads in unison, they have not produced a single piece of evidence which can prove that Lucy was a direct ancestor of humankind other than bipedal locomotion. Given that anthropology is a soft science, speculative theories are bound to abound.
Scientists still cannot to this day provide any proof how an ape with 48 chromosomes can produce human beings with 46 chromosomes. Anthropologists are not hard scientists but speculative interpreters. In fact, there are at present a dozen fossilized ape-like remains which are competing to be recognized as a direct human ancestor. The finder of each fossil backs his own find as being the most authentic claimant to the title. Of course none of these anthropologists attempt to claim that these could be the remains of some prehistoric chimpanzee or gorilla; there is no money in that —besides anthropologists are not really paid for unearthing ancient chimpanzee or gorilla remains. Hard science still cannot reconcile these anthropologists’ claims to known reality.
Since the 1960’s many scientists studying biology and microbiology have called into question Darwin’s macroevolution. They have made important observations and provided evidence which make claims by mainline evolutionists unsustainable. The mainline evolutionists have made no counter arguments other than regurgitating Mr. Darwin’s Theory more loudly and forcefully. Lacking the ability to refute these scientific findings, evolutionists attempt to silence dissent within their ranks by accusing all dissenters of having a religious hidden agenda. Where have we heard this before?
The greatest problem to overcome for those seeking scientific truth is the mass indoctrination of students by undereducated credulous educators who unthinkingly parrot whatever speculative nonsense which comes their way. This scientific laziness has stymied all research into any alternative explanation into the origins of life. Without another competing “scientific” theory, the Theory of Evolution has taken on a dogmatic nature within the scientific community. Frequently, honest scientists who question the validity of this theory are condemned as heretics and excommunicated from within the scientific ranks. The underling fear within the scientific community is of course that the universe might actually have purpose and a supernatural origin, which, of course the scientific community may not be able explains in merely mundane terms. Not that the Theory of Evolution is mundane by any means of the imagination, it would be truly a miracle if it ever did happen.
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