iam(still)kevin.

I read an article (Finding Design in Nature)in the NYTimes dealing with the Catholic Church’s view on Evolution. It mentioned that Pope JP Deuce is often quoted as saying that evolution is “more than a hypothesis” and take that to mean that the Catholic church in some way accepts the scientific idea of evolution. However, it goes on to explain that the church’s real stance on evolution is that essentially the development of life has a final purpose or design, and that they do not accept the view of Darwinian random chance evolution.

The thing is, why can’t we all just agree to let it go and let everyone believe what they will? It’s all the same in the end. For example, those who believe in Darwinian evolution say that chance or luck are what determines the differences in race, and that survival of the fittest determines which designs go on to define the species. Catholics on the other hand believe that it is God who is determining what happens to a species over time, and that he has a final design. In the end though, the same unsuccessful versions of a species die off, due either to bad luck or God deeming that they were not his final design, so isn’t it just a fight over semantics? Those animals still existed at some point, you can’t deny that (i hope) so whether it was god or nature, the outcome is the same.
As long as it’s not something that affects you in a personal way, I don’t understand why people on both sides of the argument have to fight so much over it. Obviously I only hear about (or am annoyed at) what the religious side of the argument does like putting stickers in grade school science books saying “evolution is only a theory” - an act that was later overruled and the stickers removed - but it stands to reason that people who believe in evolution do similar things to those who believe in the Catholic point of view. It’s like reading a book in two different languages and arguing that my book is better cause it’s in Spanish and your book in French sucks. it’s the same story in the end, plus it was probably written in German to begin with.

Basicall it all boils down to me being sick of all the unnecessary fighting that happens in the world. fucking terrorism and racism and religous bigotry.
woo.

back to xbox.

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