Christians -- including many Catholics -- often betray a recalcitrant disquiet, if not outright resistance, when it comes to reconciling their religious beliefs with the theory of evolution through natural selection. The flames of this disquiet are fanned by voluble scientistic ideologues, such as Richard Dawkins, who insist that one cannot accept both the Hebrew bible and modern biology.
Why natural selection and not, say, thermodynamics? There is nothing inherently un-Christian in the idea that complex life evolved from a prior, more primitive, state.
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