(August 15, 2017 at 3:16 pm)pabsta Wrote: And for the record, the Catholic Church PERMITS belief in the theory of evolution AS LONG AS the Catholic believes Adam and Eve were the first human beings infused with a SOUL. By doing so it is not a conflict with Catholicism, though it's still ridiculous.
Well then, the Catholic church would be wrong on the Adam and Eve claim.
How can evolution be ridiculous, when it has been observed, in the wild and in the lab?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
