10 minutes agoLucy vs Adam and Eva: The Theory of Evolution in Africa
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(8 years ago)Did God create mankind, or have we evolved from monkeys? Many Africans find it difficult to reconcile with the theory of evolution. But what do theologians think? Lefranc Nduriobel from Cameroon was clearly boring “Bring a monkey into your house and we'll see if he'll be back in man,” wrote on the official page [...]
Lefranc Nduriobel from Cameroon was clearly boring “Bring a monkey into your house and we'll see if he'll be back in human,” wrote to the official “Facebook page. DW” Transmission Periscope.
He had just watched the first episodes of the new series “African forces”, in which 15 African historical figures have been explored. The subject in the first episode was Lucy ʹ, also known as Dinkneesh é her skeleton was discovered by American diggers in Ethiopia in 1974.
According to scientists' estimates, Lucy is estimated to be old about 3. 2 million years old and widely identified by scholars as the oldest ancestor of modern people, weighting the theory of evolution.
As of Lefrank, many other commentators supported his idea. God created the first man who was a perfect man, not a monkey! ” wrote Shesha Ibrahim.
God created Adam first, then his wife Hawaii, and if white people want to teach us that we're monkeys, then they're wrong,” protested Obadiah Ali from Nairobi.
Such kinds of opinions are known to Catholic priest Friedrich Stenger. He has lived in Africa for many decades recently at the Tangaza Catholic college in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
A biology teacher in Ethiopia once told me that evolution is in conflict with the church because pastors say the world was created 4,000 years ago,” Stanger told “DW”, “The teacher told me: As a scientist, I know that's not true. How can he associate religion and science?”
For a long time, the Catholic Church has not moved on. Until the years, the opening of the theory of evolution began slowly.
In 1986, Pope Jonhn Paul II commented that belief in God and evolution should not be mutual. Classic studies professor Abdulkader Tayoub from Cape Town University also gave some ideas on the principle of how evolution can function with belief in God.
The Muslims, Jews and Christians believe that God created everything from an absolute will,” he said. Many people believe that this idea is composed by the theory of evolution.”/Periscope/
