Catholicism proves evolution wrong

1) Pro says abiogenesis is "wrong." He gave not a shred of evidence to support this. Instead, what he did was discuss natural selection via evolution vs. abiogensis. However, abiogenesis and evolution are two completely different things. The theory of evolution says nothing about the origin of life, but rather describes the processes which take place once life has began. There may also be multiple pathways to producing naturally occurring "life" depending of course on the definition of life that you use. Pro's objection here fails because he tries to reconcile the two terms (evolution and abiogenesis) when in fact they refer to very different things. A contradiction would only exist if evolution at some point did try to explain the origin of life and then people moved away from it. This is not the case at all [4]. 2) Pro says something as complex as the human brain can only be attributed to God. First of all, this is completely fallacious - it's a bare assertion. Second, Pro says that Catholics believe that God created everything and He has no beginning. I could say that many theorize the universe to have no beginning - or what's outside the universe and created the universe has no "beginning" - so this would be circular. God simply has no beginning because God is defined that way. That does not give credence to the idea whatsoever that the brain HAD to be developed by God. Pro must offer evidence and not just state his beliefs. Of course Pro also notes that Einstein believed in God. First, I could easily list a handful of other brilliant and credible scientists and philosophers who don't believe in God. This is moot. Second, this is yet another fallacious contention put forth by Pro - an obvious appeal to authority. Third, Pro doesn't seem to know anything about Einstein's beliefs. Einstein said, "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly" [5]. Einstein was a Deist. "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings" [6]. Keep in mind that Spinoza was a Pantheist -- in other words he thought the universe itself was God (or vice versa), to put it simply. 3) Pro writes, "One reason why God prove evolution wroong is the argument of motion..." Basically, he posts the Cosmological (First Mover) Argument. I could give an entire philosophical rebuttal, but I don't have to. Evolutionary theory started with the observation of the mutability of species - a property that only exists once life has begun. Natural Selection posits that nature provides the selection criteria to drive evolution. At no point was evolution, nor natural selection, about explaining the origin of life. Therefore evolution could still be true EVEN IF the Cosmological Argument were true. As such I don't even have to go any further, as this argument does not uphold (and is in fact irrelevant) to the resolution. [4] http://rationalwiki.org... [5] Dukas, Helen and Hoffman, Banesh. Albert Einstein: The Human Side. Princeton University Press (1981). p. 43. [6] http://www.godandscience.org...