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Can Catholics Believe Theistic Evolution?

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Science of Evolution

People have known that children resemble their parents all through history. In the 19th century, the Augustinian abbot Gregor Mendel worked out the Fundamental laws of inheritance. The genes for blue eyedness in humans having blue eyes now minor green years look brown brown. And so what you can infer if you do a genetic test on someone and let's say he's, let's say I do a genetictest on Michael often, and he's got brown eyes and I see, okay, he's gotBrowneyed genes, but he's also got blue eyed genes. That means Michael often had some blue eyed ancestors. But fairly recently, or they would have been weeded out.

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