Can Catholics Believe Theistic Evolution? - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Can Catholic believe theistic evolution? Michael Lofton welcomes Jimmy Akin onto his show to discuss this topic, as well as old vs. young earth and monogenism vs. polygenism, all from a Catholic perspective.

[Noah_]

I never realized how much I needed the Mysterious World music over Michael's R&T intro until now 😂

[TrixRN]

Love your channel, Jimmy ❤️ Really appreciated your interview on Reason & Theology. I listen to Michael all the time, too.

[EmmaWithJesus]

I look forward to your videos/podcast every week Jimmy! I love everything about them! God bless you Jimmy! :)

[LostArchivist]

I am a Catholic biologist and would be happy to try to answer any questions on evolution if anyone has any they would like answered.

[tonyl]

Really appreciate you engaging Humani Generis and explaining the magisterial development since it came out! Already reached out to you directly about a tract and Q&A articles on the Catholic Answers website that seem to be out-of-date in comparison to your presentation. I'd recommend revising or removing those or perhaps having a link at the bottom of them to your updated analysis.
Tract: "Adam, Eve, and Evolution"
Q&A: "Adam and Eve Were Real People"
Q&A: "Given the evidence for evolution, are Catholics required to believe Adam and Eve existed?"

[gnomeresearch]

For whatever it's worth, I like to think that Adam being created from the mud/dust/slime of the Earth also refers to all that unensouled matter that preceded Adam used by God in His wondrous act of creation. He filled the world, Earth and the cosmos, with seemingly unending wonders, preparing creation for us. This grandeur and scope never leaves me bored with the glory of God. All glory to Him!

[tonyl]

A friend of mine introduced me to Dr Ken Miller, a Catholic biology professor, who helped open me up to evolution and deflate some intelligent design/irreducible complexity claims. This was years ago.

[lucidlocomotive]

Picture Johnny Akin in a cave (in his mysterious LAND) when suddenly he hears a strange and mysterious sound! What on our earth could it EVEN be?! He investigates a bit, poking around the cave, taking a peek at the stars, making a note of the olfactory features of the whispering wind which did slither between the willows, when he realizes the sound, is the sound of voices, and be soon does discover that those voices are commenting, making statements, asking questions etc. about the various previous episodes of John Akin Mysterious Land. And that’s what I think of and picture every time I hear him say “Mysterious Feedback”.

[GoncaloAndrade-onuk]

This video has way too few views for the importance of the topic!
Thank you Jimmy for all this research and for sharing it!

[rachelb]

Love this channel. I could listen to Jimmy all day! Wonder what happened to the sub count? Last I checked you had near 39K... now it reads 36K? YouTube shenanigans?

[ericfaith]

❤ 🤓 this discussion. Jimmy, you never fail to amaze you fellow Thomist! Being Franciscan, I need to hear or read Saint Bonaventure. I love Augustine too & City of God is a timeless masterpiece.

[Catmonks]

The man, the myth, the legend awesome video by Jimmy Akin and Michael reason and theology 🙏✝️🇻🇦🇺🇸🦅💯

[ShaunCKennedyAuthor]

This was awesome. Thanks, Jimmy.

Some people get too hung up on the idea that if the Bible has something that's not easily understood at face value as true, it's bunk. For those people, I've been getting a lot of milage out of an analogy to stories I tell my children. I tell my children one story to emphasize the benefit of hard work, and another story to teach them that sometimes it's necessary to work against unjust rules. If someone raises the objection to the first that pigs don't talk or build houses, or to the second that King John went on to be one of the most respected monarchs of his age after his older brother Richard emptied the treasury, then they've engaged in an exercise in missing the point. It's also interesting that 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that all scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, not history, physics, and geology.

[trad-lite]

Enjoyed this first go around on Reason & Theology, and just as excited to watch it again 😉👍🏻🇻🇦

[Lulue_]

I'm glad JIMMY IS PICKING THIS UP

[williammcenaney]

This video helps me a lot because young earth creationism has always been too hard for me to believe. The Kolbe Center says the Fourth Lateran Council teaches it. But Dr. Stephen Meyer still convinced me that Neo-Darwinism is false because it can't explain how animal body plans originated. Meyer also believes that though high school and college textbooks still teach Neo-Darwinism, many scientists believe that a new theory must replace it because it can't explain those plans.

The Kolbe Center's opinion worried me deeply. Before I watched this video, I thought some homeschooled young earth creationists could lose the Catholic faith in college biology courses.

[mgwalker]

Hi Jimmy - the discussion of death before the fall that you talk about from 43:57 is something I find a real stumbling block to theism. People will use the fall as an explanation for natural evil in the world. However as you say evolutionary evidence indicates death and suffering existed for many species before man (or modern man) came along. So why would God create a world of so much suffering and death for any species (including homo-sapien ancestors)? I've not yet heard of a good theistic explanation for that other than 'we can't know God's ways' type of arguments. Other than that the only way I can see that people can use the fall as an explanation for natural evil is to be an evolution denier (as many are but that doesn't work for me). Have you encountered any arguments that you consider can tally all of that together? Or does it just come down to 'we can't understand the mind of God'? Thanks!

[jmctigret]

Have you read In Quest of the Historical Adam: by William Lane Craig?

[arthurbaste]

Hi, what about the Catechism paragraphs 360 and 361?
Are they also in symbolic language?

[Adrian-mjis]

For decades, evolution has already been accepted by a great number of priests, bishops and laymen. The Jesuit priest and paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin, for example, gained a large following when he said that evolution is needed actually to defend Christianity!