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*What really is Evolution?*
Evolution is simply put as the theory that traces all life to the same ancestry. Over the years, scientists have made the leap into the discovery of the fossil that defines the origin and length of the existence of life. The fossil traces all life to have started some 6 million years ago. It is believe that all life originates somewhat from the same ancestry. The Scripture teaches that God created all things (Gen 1). If God created all things yet all things evolved from one ancestry is there any descripancy? Should Christians accept the evolutionary theory. If so, what happens to the biblical account of Creation?
*Evolution and Religion*
Can Christians Believe in Evolutionary Theory? I am pleased with the exposure of this argument. Yes, Christians (especially Catholics) don't have problems with Scientific theory of Evolution. Actually Science has it's case study on Nature and we believe it's a major help to human consciousness. But Nature is not all about empirical studies since Science can't take human feelings and conscience to laboratory. Spoken words are neithter tested in Laboratories too. Life is all encompassing such that Science must give room to metaphysical and spiritual realities too. Why did I begin this way? Let me clear it out: _Evolution is a scientific theory that tends to answer the question of the origin of life._ It is a half truth. Evolution should not deny the truth of God and creation since the metaphysical and Spiritual realities of the origin of life is the other half truth.
God created all the existential beings but the shapes, sizes, colours, densities and Propensities were not specified. Whether the fossil was originally created was not specified. As Christians we believe in the Creation of all things by God's word.."Let there be..." And this word of God is Christ (In 1:14). We Christians don't talk about Cosmo Genesis because the Cosmos came to be... Meaning it had a Genesis. Rather we believe in Christo Genesis because that is the Word that generated the Cosmos. As regards human life, God created man and he was not exactly the man that existed today. Since 6 million year or there about there must have been metamorphosis and evolutionary developments. The Scripture did not specify the kind of man God created: tall or short, dark or fair, standing or bending! So Evolution is Real. Man has evolved over the years likewise other beings. All men have the same ancestry likewise other species of animals but not same ancestry for all...
*THE LOGOS AS THE COMMON ANCESTRY*
If we are to trace the same ancestry for all, it should be traced back to the "Creative Word" the "Logos". God created all things through his Word (Christ). There is never a thing created that doesn't come from Him ( Jn 1). The fossil as the scientists rightly discovered tells the tale of the origin but the fossil didn't exist on it's own. Some scientific evolutists believe in Big Bang... The huge ball-like container that busted and formed all things- the question is how the huge ball-like container came into being. God is the originator of all things. He made all things through Christ (Word and Wisdom of God). He sustains life through his power. Mutation and development of organisms are a process set up by God for the continuous development of life towards perfection ( Christ). Conflict of interest and nature, as well as suffering are disorder in the process of growth. Man, the only high level intellectual among other lives, must have convergence of consciousness to fully attain the beauty of perfection in which God set him in creation. Evolution is the dynamism in the growth of nature towards perfection... And that perfection is Christ!
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