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The Catholic Church's current belief is there is no conflict between evolution and church teachings. They do believe evolution was divinely inspired. They also go with the scientific theories on age of earth and gradual appearance of life. Its interesting to see the difference between the actual Catholic doctrine and those that broke away.

If the non-evolution Christian truly needs everything spelled out, Genesis 1:28[1] would probably explain it all. Kinda hard to have dominion if you don't have a mechanism to change things. I would love the non-evolution version of how we get good hunting dogs and modern cows?

1) http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-1-28/

// ok, yes the Catholic Church did some bad things to scientists, I get that - look at the current doctrine

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This. The Catholic Church supports both the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory (no jokes about the TV show please). So don't blame the Catholic Church for this one. Given that South Korea is split between Catholics and Buddhists, it doesn't seem like there is a particularly religious reason for this trend.

South Korean christians are mostly protestants, not catholics.

edit: it looks like Catholicism has been growing over the past 10 years, but there are still more Protestants.

In any case South Korea is not "split between Catholics and Buddhists," the largest denomination is Presbyterian and 46% identify as not religious at all.

My impression is that it's largely non-catholics these days, but JP2 canonized (or at least started the process for) hundreds if not thousands of Koreans.

     Christian        31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%)
     Buddhist         24.2%, 
     other or unknown  0.9%
     none             43.3% 
    (2010 survey)

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...) People and Society section.

> I would love the non-evolution version of how we get good hunting dogs

Creationists believe that the 2 dogs from Noah's Ark contained the genetic material for all dogs and that it is easier to believe that than believing that all dogs came from a rock or an amoeba.

http://www.kenthovindblog.com/?p=542

I love the use of the word "adapt" with no attached meaning while making the same claims about Darwin. I'm not sure what offends me more, the whole misrepresentation of Darwin or the lack of an internal logic in the argument. At least make sure your argument is internally consistent.

The evangelical Protestant / baptist / psycho nutjob sects of North America believe that Catholics are evil polytheists anyway, and can probably use the Catholic Churches non-repudiation of evolution as more evidence of how evil the Catholics are.

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