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I think there's a strong evangelical influence over Catholic culture in the US. Church doctrine does acknolwledge evolution, but with certain exceptions such as
by analog31 4y ago
I think there's a strong evangelical influence over Catholic culture in the US. Church doctrine does acknolwledge evolution, but with certain exceptions such as human consciousness.
Disclosure: Went to Catholic university
- yarpen_z 4y agoCatholics teaching includes the existence of a unique soul in each human - this obviously cannot be a product of evolution.
- mcphage 4y agoHowever, the soul isn't biological, so it is completely orthogonal to evolution.
- analog31 4y agoIndeed, and in particular it's the coupling of the eternal soul to the temporal body, that is held to be inaccessible to naturalistic inquiry. There are similar problems surrounding reproduction.
- aarpmcgee 4y agoWhy could the soul not be a product of evolution?
- ben_w 4y agoThe thought process is probably the same reason we're all telling ourselves LaMDA and GPT-3 can't be conscious: Our subjective experience of reality constantly eludes our ability to explain in terms of any physical or informational processes, so every time a system becomes explicable, it leaves the domain of "things which might be self-aware". Some people take this in the other direction and attribute a soul to everything, others go further and say that even our self awareness is an illusion.