#12169 How Can Adam and Eve Fit with Modern Evolutionary Science? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Can Catholics believe in both a historical Adam and Eve and modern evolutionary theory? We explore how Church teaching reconciles faith and science, along with insights on Jesus’ divinity in the Gospels, the death of a pope, and Catholic relations with Protestants and Orthodox Christians.

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Questions Covered:

04:24 – Why in the debate with Bart Ehrmann, he had a disagreement about Jesus saying He was divine in the synoptic gospels? Why?
18:11 – I heard a claim that the Church wanted Luther dead, is this true?
24:11 – How should we treat the death of the Pope? Can we say he is already in heaven?
31:13 – How can the historical Adam and Eve fit in with modern evolutionary science?
44:24 – Was Jesus born in a cave or a house?
47:03 – Can I go to a Protestant service, if I still go to Mass?
49:18 – I heard there is a reentering of communion between Rome and Anglicans. Will this be on hold with the passing of Pope Francis?
52:16 – Can you explain the Orthodox claim that the church was originally beyond just Rome because Peter founded a church in Antioch?

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0:32.2	My name is Edgar Lujano.
0:33.4	Filling in for Sykelet today, what a beautiful Friday we have here.
0:37.1	It's going to be a great day because when you hear Fridays now here at Catholic Answers, you hear two full hours with Jimmy Aiken. We get to do and ask me anything. So if you want to go ahead and give us a call before they fully light up, you can give us a call at 8883187-884. That's Triple-831 Truth to get online with Jimmy Aiken to ask him a question.
0:59.3	He currently runs two podcasts, the Jimmy Aiken podcast and Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World,
1:04.7	which you can find on his YouTube channel.
1:07.0	Just look up Jimmy Aiken.
1:08.0	You can find both of them on there.
1:10.0	Jimmy, welcome to the show.
1:11.9	Well, thank you, Edgar. Great to be working with you again. And even though my name is in two podcasts, I actually do six regularly like every week.
1:20.9	All right. I stand corrected. What are the others?
1:24.2	Well, so the two that have my name on them are Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, which I've been doing for over seven years now.
1:31.8	And the other is the Jimmy Aiken podcast, which I've been doing for going on a year now.
1:38.4	But in addition, there's a daily defense, which is a daily podcast that I recorded a while back. In addition, I'm on Catholic
1:46.5	Answers Live, which is a podcast, so that's up to four. And then I also regularly do
1:51.6	secrets to Star Trek and secrets to Doctor Who, as well as appearing on other people's
1:58.1	podcasts. But those are the six I do that you can get every week
2:02.6	from me. Great. Well, there you have it. Plenty to check out if you want to listen to Jimmy.
2:08.0	All week long, you have plenty to listen to. I should add a seventh just so you have, well,
2:13.3	just so you have one every day, but a daily defense probably covers that. Yeah, there you go.
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