God After Darwin: Are Christianity and Evolution Compatible? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So I have given the out a handout, and it has been shown by empirical evidence that Homo sapiens are capable of sharing handouts with one another. |
| 0:09.6 | Enough of them haven't been photocopied by the less evolved forms of the species for the talk. |
| 0:16.3 | And so if you could, you know, maybe just share it need be or if possible with other people. |
| 0:22.8 | And on the handout, there's a series of bullet points, and I'm going to go just through them, and I'm going to talk about them, so it's rather predictable. |
| 0:28.3 | But I'm going to fill in the content as we go, and the first bullet point is evolutionary theory is reasonable because there are numerous distinct and conversion sources of evidence. |
| 0:39.6 | So let me talk about that for a minute. Think about this line of explanation. Big Bang |
| 0:44.9 | cosmology considers, is based on modern physicists' considerations of the actual rate, rate |
| 0:50.9 | of expansion of the universe as determined by empirical measures, in keeping with physical laws that are constant, to determine an initial age at which the universe began, estimated currently at approximately 13.8 to 14.5 billion years ago. And much of the thinking about the expansion and trajectory, as it were, of physical motion in the cosmos |
| 1:13.9 | based on this overarching theory, which has gained a great deal of consensus among physicists based on physical measurement. |
| 1:21.6 | Now add to this another line of explanation. |
| 1:24.1 | The shift of platelets. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm talking about the platelets of the earth's surface, |
| 1:28.2 | which according to their gradual movement, have shifted over the course of hundreds of millions of |
| 1:32.6 | years. And this is part of the way we explain the current shape of the earth, the movements of the |
| 1:39.3 | platelets as they currently are while they're wide are fault lines and the separation of continents |
| 1:44.2 | and flora and fauna as they have developed on the different continents. |
| 1:50.7 | Now another line of explanation has to do with archaeological evidence in the soil of our most |
| 1:56.3 | distant biological ancestors, starting at the deepest level of the soils, archaeological evidence of |
| 2:04.9 | fossils, with single-cell organisms. |
| 2:08.2 | So the further down you go, the less complicated things are, the simpler they are. |
| 2:12.9 | And as you go up in the levels, you find more complicated, multi-celled creatures, and eventually you find |
| 2:18.4 | more complex plant forms, animal forms, sensate forms, like animals that have senses, |
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