The fossil record, with fossils of simpler species in earlier geological strata and more complex species in later strata, as well as shared DNA sequences among species support the theory that life on earth began in simple forms and evolved into more complex forms through gene mutations in offspring and the effect of the environment naturally selecting the best adapted individuals for survival to pass on their genes.
simpler species in earlier geological strata and more complex species in later strata
we weren't exactly treating Joan of Arc as a master of military strategy like we do Sun Tzu
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2012-0415-mjm-dawkins-pell.htm“Ah, well, I’m curious to know if Adam and Eve never existed
where did Original Sin come from?”...Richard Dawkins to George Cardinal Pell
Gaia - Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Gaia also spelled Gaea is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the ...
I think that apology was a mistake... look at the incoming data.Schonbergian has said, correctly, that the Church, historically, has been concerned with theological 'minutiae', not scientific ones. This is true and should ever be so. The few times that the Church has weighed in on scientific minutiae it has been embarrassingly wrong - to wit, the Galileo affair, for which the Church finally made apology five hundred years too late.
Joshua, 10: 12-13 "Then spake Joshua... Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon... So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go down about a whole day."
Sorry tomjaw, but why? As a (sort of) scientist, I believe in miracles, and not that everything happens by mechanical cause and effect. At the same time I believe that simple cause and effect is far more common, and that miracles only happen for a sufficient reason.I would like to hear a scientific explanation of the miracle of the sun 13 October 1917
The three preternatural gifts were (if memory serves) immortality, impassibility, and infused knowledge. Immortality was freedom from death; impassibility was freedom from suffering; infused knowledge was the knowledge God granted Adam regarding the natural order.
this feast shows, not only that the dead body of the Blessed Virgin Mary remained incorrupt, but that she gained a triumph out of death, her heavenly glorification after the example of her only begotten Son, Jesus Christ . . .
To me, that is IS the miracle!the creation of Adam (out of nothing) in God's likeness is also a miracle
the earth is “remarkably placed” in the universe or, is the “axis of evil” just a universal coincidence? As I understand it, there are two 'lines' that criss cross the universe and where they intersect is earth. Is that a correct way to say it?
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