Other Thoughts On Adam and Eve As Our First Parentsthere are a myriad of interesting blogs on what to make of adam and eve as our first parents. some of my favorites, admittedly because they are faith-based:
the question: As Catholics, are we required to believe that Eve was literally created from Adam in some (miraculously) way? ...and if so, where is this defined?
some answers:The opposing position (in my mind) would be that this account in Genesis is simply a figure to show that women were created with equal dignity... and not necessarily a literal/historical account. I really wouldn't have much of an issue accepting it as literal (if it must be so), but I would much rather have the option of not violating fundamental physical laws, if at all possible.
(by masterjedi747)***
Christians are required to believe in miracles. Otherwise, how would one explain or believe in the Incarnation or the Resurrection or the Ascension. So a Divine miraculous intervention at the start of the human race should not be excluded.
(by Ron Conte)***
Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. Pope Pius XII declared that "the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions . . . take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter—but the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36). So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.
(by Steadfast love)***
While miracles do happen, when something that may at first appear to be a miracle is explainable by natural forces, it need not be considered a miracle. When so called miracles are attributed to the intercession of a candidate for sainthood and there is a natural explanation, the "miracle" is not accepted as evidence.
There is a problem with some scholars who would try to explain away a true miracle by rather questionable means. For example the miracle of the loaves and fishes being attributed to a crowd deciding to share concealed food.
There are also folks who say because miracles defy the laws of science there can be no such thing as a miracle. However that is the very definition of a miracle, an event or happening that is outside the laws of science, laws which are sometimes confused with the natural law.
One may accept the narrative of the creation of Adam and Eve at face value or that the formation of their physical bodies can be attributed to an evolutionary mechanism of one sort or another. The Church does not require belief in either explanation.
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