Evolution: What the Church Actually Teaches - Explaining the Faith
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- Many of us are confused about evolution. What is evolution and does it go against the Bible? Does the Catholic Church say it is permissible to believe in evolution? If so, what kind of evolution? Join Fr. Chris Alar as he gives an actual easy answer to this centuries-long dilemma in this episode of Explaining the Faith ad discover what the the Catholic Church actually teaches.
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Thank you, Father Chris! It makes me sad that you keep getting rude letters when you’re one of the few that’s actually speaking the truth and teaching true Catholicism. We need more catholic priests like you!! We all love you and we will continue to pray for you! May God bless you and may our Blessed Mother protect you always! ❤️
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Thank you so much Jackie and God bless you
@@DivineMercy_Official May God the Almighty Father, God the Son Jesus Christ ✝️ and God the Holy Spirit BLESS and PROTECT you Father.
@@Darth_Vader258 Thank you DV and God bless you too!
@@DivineMercy_Official I totally agree with Jackie, I also love and enjoy watching Fr. Chris Alar
Thank you for this talk on Evolution: What the Church Actually Teaches, Fr. Chris. So grateful for taking much of your time to research so as to give us a clear and right understanding of our faith and what we believe. “All truth comes from God.” This is the truth to defend our church and the surest way to our salvation. We make things so complicated, twisted them and we get lost away from the TRUTH. Jesus, have mercy on us and the whole world.
Thank you Ofelia for taking the time to watch with us and God bless you!
@@DivineMercy_Official did you mean Ofelia!
@@DivineMercy_Official THANK YOU Father Chris Alars you are TEACHING me the Faith, as a cradle Catholic.
@@Darth_Vader258 And thank you for being open to God's grace to learn your faith!
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God bless you, Fr. Chris, for having the courage to explain this controversial issue of Evolution. May God strengthen & protect you in your ministry. God bless the Marians.
May Mother Mary protect Fr Chris under her mantle.
May His Light & Protection be with you always Fr Chris🕊🙏🏼♥️
As a scientist retired, makes so much sense, thanks father
What kind of scientist?
Does it matter?? An Entomologist for many years!!!
@@johndooley5482 I was just curious. No disrespect meant. God bless you
thanks God bless
Prayers for all the Marian Helpers 🙏🏼❤Thank you Father Chris for all you do. God bless you.
Fr Chris goes above and beyond any priest. May his rewards be great in Heaven.
Father Chris you are so excellent. I always love your presentation. ❤
Me, too! Each talk is like a treasurer. So glad they remain up in TH-cam for future reference.
Thank you Fr. Chris and the Divine Mercy team. May God bless you all.
As someone who lost his faith for 9 years and is in the process of working my way back. I wish this was how science/religion was taught earlier in my life. So accessible and still allows me to integrate things I've learnt in science with my faith in a simple way. Thank you Father for helping me work back into the faith
Yes Warren God bless you! Please let us know if there's any way we can help you
Look up some of the faith & science videos from Fr Robert Spitzer. They are very good also.
Thank you for this great information about Evolution Fr. Chris. We thank God for you, for providing you the strength, the energy to do all of the research and prep for your talks! I’ve been learning so much and taking in as much as I can to remember what I am learning to share with 4th grade students in Religious Ed! We thank God for placing you in our lives! We pray for the Lord to continue to bless you and your staff and each wonderful person who works at the The National Shrine of Divine Mercy, especially Mary Kay, Mary and Chris, together with all of your families. The National Shrine of Divine Mercy is heaven here on earth! Blessings and Peace.
That's awesome Lynne God bless you for passing on the teachings of our faith
Learned so much from an hour lecture, blessings to you Fr. Chris as always & the crew behind this wonderful clip!
Praying to all the priests & bishops worldwide, challenging to lead God's flock nowadays for sure, so much distractions in so many ways!
There are, indeed, many distractions in our society today. Fr Chris keeps us laser-focused on what is true church teaching based if the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Thank you very much dear Fr Chris God Bless you abundantly!!
I love all your conferences , thank you 🙏🏻 ❤
Fr Chris, another phenomenal talk! I thank God every day for all Marians. You taught me so much again today. Thank you!
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Thank you, Fr. CHRIS, for reading our comments. I have a Pastor who refused to read my emails and letters. In fact, I can't write to him AND he told me I couldn't volunteer at his parish anymore. I am now in a non-diocesan parish,my 5th in 3 1/2 years such returning to the Church after 45 years.
God bless you and prayers for you to find some stability. Yes, being in the Catholic Church is most important no matter which one it is. God bless you
@@DivineMercy_Official thanks for the support. I have been learning lot as I've changed parishes, although situation gets worse each time. Important to focus our love and thoughts on the Lord. Seek first the kingdom of God and all else will resolve - in heaven if not in this life. I have a Spiritual Director now and I'm going to be careful not to become too attached to people and places, but to focus on God.
May God Bless you, 🙏 Fr.Chris and thank you for your teachings 🙏
I believe God designed evolution and that’s just one more reason he is truly incredible and incomprehensible for us humans. Praise HIS GENIUS!
Thank you for this talk. I look forward to them every week, and find my self thinking about them often. I believe I’ve listened to the ones on Noah’s Ark, the Angels, Padre Pio, St. Charbel, and St. Faustina several times, and shared them, too. Thank you for all you do, Father Alar!
Thank you Ann for helping us to share God's message of mercy. God bless you
Father, thank you so much for this talk. Our Lord gifted you with a rare ability to explain complex and nuanced truths in clear and readily comprehensible way. I listen to almost all your Saturday lectures multiple times because each one is so rich with treasures.
Thank you for being with us and God bless you
God bless you more Fr.Chris Alar,since the 1st day i found Divine Mercy you tube channel,Explaining the Faith,i always look for the playlist,thank Almighty God,i learned and still learning about our Cathechism,and spreading it as much as i can,praying for your strength and more wisdom,Fr.Chris,we badly need someone like in this present day,God bless and more power,greetings from Philippines,you once said,one of the special chosen people,thank you,it sends shiver to my spine everytime you said it😇
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
❤🙏Fr Chris Alar. You hit it out of the park again. Your teachings of the facts,history,beliefs,traditions and such on Catholicism. Your talks have become a part of my daily routine and I have jumped in whole heartedly to keep learning more about my faith. Please if you see this say a little prayer for my husband with covid and for my disabled son that he doesn’t get it.
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🙏🏻for your son and your husband and you.
Thank you Theresa and God bless you and yes prayers for your husband.
Thank you and God Bless and stay well 💕🙏🕊
@@DivineMercy_Official thank you for your prayers for my husband and my son. My husband is back to normal and my son and myself haven’t caught the virus. 🙏💕🕊Have a blessed Sunday!
Thank you so much Father Christ,God bless me through you, even when I can not sleep I always watch you. Keep teaching us to grow and strenghten our faith. God bless you always
Thank you Lin for joining us and God bless you
I am a Catholic, a geologist, and a paleontologist. I have had to deal with creationists and atheists constantly in my life and honestly both sides are blind and wrong because they won't sit down with an open mind and compare notes. The Bible is correct in that the earth was created in 6 days, and the geologic timeline of billions of years is correct. How? Time is relative. Gravity distorts time, and time is relative to the point of view of the observer. Genesis is observing events from the point of view of someone on Earth, with the time scale from the origin of the universe. As space stretched from the "Big Bang" as it is called, time was distorted along that expanding universe. For an example of this in our modern times, the space time the satellite system you are using for your GPS unit on your cellphone is slightly different from the one on your watch with the one in space being ahead by fractions of a second. Likewise on a record the outer part of the record and the center of a record (or cd or other wheel) is making the same number of rotations, but because you now have a greater distance to travel in the same time the outer part of the disk is moving faster than the center. And as we know the universe is expanding due to the observed action of red shift between galaxies, time and space are warped on a massive scale. If you want a more detailed explanation on the geologic timeline and how it works with Genesis, feel free to reply because I already have a 9 page paper on it as a guideline for how it is the same story.
Where can I read your paper?
@@ptah4611 I am heading to work, but I will upload it to a cloud account and give you the link.
@@ptah4611 docs.google.com/document/d/1nrDmH2-mcGqOCbXlygN2xgbRDZ_L7X5p/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114586256231517511753&rtpof=true&sd=true As promised here is a link to a walk though of Genesis and the geologic timeline. If you want links to the professor who worked out the math of how it was 6 days from the point of view of the Big Bang then let me know and I'll try to find his name again. Also in the text are links to geologic websites as one of the biggest problems with this video (beyond the fact that he attempts to throw out comparative vertebrate anatomy) is that geology is an even longer history than life on earth which we can measure.
@YAJUN YUAN My BS is in geology from Auburn University and I am a post-Bach at Montana State University in the Earth Science Paleontology curriculum. My education included graduate level work in ichnofossils, macroevolution, invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology, comparative vertebrate anatomy, dinosaur focused paleontology, and I do educational work primarily focused on the dinosaurs and other Mesozoic animals of Appalachia. Am I currently employed as a paleontologist...no, but in this economy you get by how you can.
Send da paper
Fr. Chris this teaching is sound and I truly appreciate your teachings on our Catholic faith. I myself have learned much form your ministry, which God has appointed you over. Truly a blessing beyond measure. I encourage you to keep fighting the good fight. May the Peace and favor of our Lord Jesus Christ be ever you.
Thank you Father Chris, I’m going to share this to my children (2son in college now) I hope they will listen but if this is in a book there’s a great chance they will read. You really help us so much enlightening our mind. I wish there are more priest like you. I pray for you, God bless you Fr. Chris🙏
Oh I’ll get the book! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing and God bless
Thank you for clarifying the Adam & Eve and how they populated the earth👍🙏
Thank You so much for this explaination Fr.Chris!!!❤🙏 I hope and pray that people around the world wil be able to watch and learn from this!
Please pray for me & my children grandchildren & great grand children. From Connie. My daughter & my sons Laura & Joseph George & Javier.
Finally watched this talk, Father.....Bravo! Encore!.....Author, Author!! Oh, wait, God IS the Author! Thank you so, so much. Your bestest subject yet...thank you for taking us to seminary each week. God bless you and all the priests, seminarians and Marian prayer warriors. My daughter just became a Marian Helper as I am one, too.
Thank you Robin and God bless you and your family for being open to God's grace!
You are God's appointed shepherd.
HE uses you to lead all HIS lost and stray flock back to HIM.
You are given gifts of wisdom, humility and eloquence.
You genuinely care and are compassionate about the salvation of us poor sinners as you passionately and generously share your gifts to all of us who seek the TRUTH.
You have given us the necessary weapons and tools to help combat all doubts, fears and temptations that the devil constantly throws at us.
Keep up the good work, Fr Chris/Joseph.
You are AMAZING and truly "One of a kind".
God bless you ALWAYS.
Ann from Brooklyn,NY
Thank you Ann and God bless you for taking the time to watch with us
You are a modern day God's fearless disciple.
@@themiraculoussun Thank you AJ and God bless you for being with us!
Great explanation of a truly confusing topic. I understand so much more! Thank you Fr. Chris as always. Blessings to you and your family and especially your community 💕
I love you Father Chris ❤I am so blessed to be able to listen to you everyday 🙏
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Prayers for all the souls in purgatory. Prayers for all those that don’t have anyone to pray for them 🙏🏼❤️
Thanks Fr Chris for today’s teaching
Another interesting topic
There are some sources out there that want to shut God down
Satan is at work and we need to pray for souls that are going astray
I love my God above all things and I am thankful for the things that he has done in my life
If I didn’t put my trust in God my life would have been destroyed
Praise God
Alleluia
God bless Fr Chris and all the priests doing the work of the lord
God bless us Amen.
Thank you father Chris for keeping educating us ...keep fighting against ignorance and atheism! God bless you!
Great talk Fr Chris!... you are a blessing to the world and the confusion and falsehood that creep silently into the teaching of our children! May God help us! God bless you.👐🔔🕯👍
Thank you so much for this talk father Chris Alair. We are so grateful to be Marian Helpers all the way from Brussels, Belgium. God bless you!
Thank you Cecilia and God bless you and everybody in Belgium!
Father Chris Alar thank you for the detailed insight and inspiration of the topic - Evolution: What the Church Actually Teaches.
This is a great topic! I have been looking forward to it ever since it was announced. It certainly did not disappoint!
@@tanyac.9005 Father Chris Alar is an amazing Priest. He has lots of Quality to offer and yet a Good and faithful servant of the Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. May God Bless him abundantly and protect him.
We should Know and love our Faith.
Thank You so much for Praying for Marian Helpers! ( I'am One!!!❤🙏)
I'm a sinner BUT I know GOD listens to my prayers!🙏🙏🙏( I'm waiting for anwers❤🙏)
Thank you Father Chris for this specific episode! As well of all the others. But this one was amazing. God bless you, the work you do , and all who contribute. 🙏
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Chris you have been an inspiration to me from the beginning!! Your teaching are so important to me and I’m always in the need to know more of my Catholic faith. Thank you! & God Bless You!
Thank you so much Charlene and God bless you for taking the time to deepen your faith!
Thank you Fr Chris!
Amen Father Chris, beautifully put, glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit..Amen.
Thank you Fr Chris for delivering this message today about the Evolution because the Bible does church readings and talking with permission as understanding this is why your being a teacher so good about unique human before the simple lecture as possible. Still praying for the Marian Helpers and Pope Francis and People especially your Dad and Mom and Pam at the Divine Mercy in Massachusetts.
Ever since i was introduced to the topic of human evolution in high school, I've always had the personal belief that the missing link they are talking about is Adam and Eve. Back then, I've always wondered why their existence was never acknowledged in science subjects. I guess now i know why. Thank you, Fr. Alar, for yet another very informative and excellent lecture! Always praying for you. God bless!
Thank you Dee, it's great to see you again 😇
Yeah, I believe Adam and Eve were Neanderthal. After the fall we became weaker and our genetics slowly degraded
Thank you Fr. Chris! Your video came at a perfect time!
The Master of time doesn’t keep time like us. We calculate time differently One day can be as a thousand or more according to His Will🕊In one instant a billion yrs.go by. We need to understand this🙏🏼 Ty Fr Chris♥️ For all your important teachings GBUF🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼♥️♥️♥️✌️🦋
I talked to my child's school principal about the anti-Catholic books they teached in HS. It is really happening for a long time. My youngest son went to a Catholic church after that.
Yes, Thank you for standing up for the faith
Fr. Chris! So good! ❤
Gosh, I really learned a lot today, as usual! Very interesting!
Aww. Mother Angelica once said the more rude letters she got the more she rejoiced and then prayed for them because Jesus said to rejoice and be glad when you are reviled and persecuted for his name Mathew 5.12 so we will be glad and rejouce with you father Chris and pray for conversion for all those people who send rude letters God Bless 🙌
Thanks father! God bless!
Love this talk Father, growing up I'd try to defend our faith in conversation, but although deep down I knew what I was saying, like darwinism isnt proven its just a theory, there wasnt ever much to add to it, now this talk adds so much more infomation, backed by theology and our church fathers, its brilliant. Thank you.
btw fun fact that was missed, even the big bang was a theory by a catholic priest, true or not, it doesnt contradict our bible at all, Praise God. God bless.
We love you Father Chris and we love all the Marian fathers.
Blessed are those who believe without seeing me 🙏🙏🙏
Fr . Chris thank you for this talk. Here is an idea for a topic, transubstantiation
Yes we talked about that in my several talks on the Eucharist and Holy Communion. Thank you and God bless
Thank you Father Chris Alar
Thank you father for all your lectures especially "back to seminary " and for your prayers 🙏🙏🙏 prayers for you too 🙏
Thank you Father Alar for speaking out against structured institutionalized atheism.
This should have been a 100hr video. Love it!!!
Thank you Father Alar 🙏♥️
Thank you Father Chris! I have 3 boys and my sister has 4 boys and I don’t think that was a coincidence. I feel that we are supposed to raise pious Catholic men. This talk and all of the other ones are helping in giving real answers to our kids as topics arise. Please pray for us, we need all the help we can get. Thank you and may St Joseph be by your side to protect you as he protected Jesus and Mary.
Thank you and God bless you and your family
more likes please!
I wonder if you realize Father Alar, that you are giving ammunition to the soldiers for battle! The battle we have everyday with nonbelievers.
Thank you, I am ready for battle to defend the Truth and our LORD✝️🕊
Thank you Patti and God bless you!
Father Chris its such a confusing time. Thank you for teaching and giving yourself to the flock..
Thank you for watching with us and God bless you
So glad I have this tool. My kids were taught Darwinism, so I am glad I have a good argument now for the difference between the Catholic teaching of evolution and Darwinism.
THANK YOU FR. CHRIS FOR TEACHING US ARE BEAUTIFUL CATHOLIC FAITH. I LEARN SO MUCH TODAY. EVOLUTION TALK IS SO INTERESTING WE ARE SO BLESSED TO LEARN FROM YOU.MAY ARE LORD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOUR TEACHING OF YOUR MIND AND YOUR PASSIONATE HEART OF YOUR FAITH. I LOVE, LOVE LOVE ALL YOUR TALKS. GOD BLESS YOU FOR EVER AND EVER TILL ETERNITY.
Thank you Jeannie for taking the time to join us and God bless you
Thank you for you video on Evolution It is much needed. Our children need to now the truth about what they are being taught. Our leaders and shepherds have failed us. May God protect you bless you and keep you.
This Iplain my faith. Thank you father Cris, you are a blessing.
Father Chris I wish every single human can sit and watch your teaching and explanation about God and the Catholic teaching
Thank you for watching with us Barbara and God bless you
Thank you Father for always sharing your clear, concise message of truth. I really enjoy your talks. I homeschooled my kids for three years and now they're in Catholic high school. We were just discussing evolution again! As required reading last year, my daughter had to read Darwin's Black Box as part of her Biology class. Clearly points out the many holes in Darwin's debunked theory. Parents should really consider homeschooling until at least 8th grade. It's one of the best, most rewarding experiences for my whole family. God bless you, Father Alar!
Yes, as I mentioned parents should be aware of what is being taught to their children. God bless for addressing that in your family
God made everything for us
Father Chris this talk is amazing - thank you so very much for bringing the truth of our faith to us. God bless🙏
Thank you Doris for taking the time to watch with us and God bless you!
I love ❤️ fr. Chris
We love all of our Marian helpers too!
I believe Adam 'spiritually' died, not physically died, the day he ate from the tree in the center of the garden.
Why couldn't the dinosaurs have existed along side people.
They have. There are cave paintings that resemble the long necked herbivore dino what it's called- brachiosaurus?. Every culture had mentions of dragons or similar variants.
Thank you Father for this great video. Keep up the good work and stay the course! God bless you!
OUR WORLD NEEDS A WHOLE LOT OF GOD AND JESUS. THAT IS WHY I AM SENDING MY DAUGHTER TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. HOPEFULLY SHE WILL GET GOOD TEACHINGS!
God make me Holy remove all evil Help me to want what you want more than what I want
Thank you Father!
Thank you Father Alar❤️ this is a very interesting topic that i can share it to my 11 yrs old son😇 he keeps asking about this evolution last time.
Yes 👍
Same here! My 11 year old yesterday asked me about Noah’s ark and said catholic religion teacher at our catholic school said might not be true.
Thank God for you Fr Chris I'm into my 80 and while I understood Adam was the first man and Eve the first woman and Jesus and Mary were new Adam and Eve .By your explanation I'm free to accept that we may have evolved,it makes so much sense.Still all Gods work.Never knew plants and creatures had souls .love hoe you explained the differance we are soul and spirit .🙏🙏🙏❤
Jesus isn't Mary's husband.
Thank you very much Father for this the truth
Thank you
Dearest Saint 😇 in the making Fr. Chris; How are you doing? How is your cousin Sandy doing? How is your mother doing? You, all religious, and all the Marion Helpers are in my daily thoughts and prayers. GOD BLESS!
Thank you Dorothy and God bless you and thank you for the prayers. Know you're in our prayers as well. Both my mom and Sandy are holding steady so I know prayers work! God bless you
Hello from Scotland 🙏
Dear Fr. Chris. Please open your explaining the faith with the date, or at least day and month. Love the education im getting
Great talk Father. I wonder if you would make a video addressing Creationism, specifically Hugh Owen from the Kolbe Center. Most Creationists I've come across are Protestant fundamentalists like Kent Hovind, but Hugh Owen gives a Catholic take and makes some good points on Catholic Theology being undermined by any form of evolution that is not micro evolution.
He also asserts that all Church Fathers and Doctors affirm a young earth.
I'm not sure what to make of all this especially if I include Intelligent Design theories ala Stephen C Meyer.
It'd be great if the Faithful could get some straight talk on Evolution, Intelligent Design and Creationism as it is applied to Catholic Theology.
Thanks again.
Thank you Father Chris. I was born i the Catholic faith. My father was very pious and involved in the Church and eas the president of the Legio Maria.
My whole schooling was in a Catholic school with the Loreto nuns. However I have learned so much from your talks. I was born in Mauritius and moved to Australia when I was 31 in 1986. I discovered this channel about 2 years ago. Still have a lot of your talks to catch up on.
Thank you Cecile so much for taking the time to be with us and staying with your Catholic faith! God bless you
Fr' Chris. You've an engaging and rich way of explaining things. Especially by shedding some fresh light on various arguments, so we can clearly see the contrast between them & see to what extent they each approximate the Truth. May the Truth Himself bless your great channel. Thank you.
Thank you Paul for joining us and God-bless you
Like my husband always said; if we evolved from apes, then why do we still have apes?
My son in college asked the professor, "If we evolved from apes back then, why are we not still evolving from them?"
Father, this is the first time I have disagreed with you. I urge you to check out Foundations Restored to get the actual Catholic perspective.
Thank you but you're not disagreeing with me. You're disagreeing with the teachings of the Catholic Church. That's all I presented here. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official Respectfully, no you didn’t. You went further than what the Church teaches and made comments about science that have not been proven. Please look into Foundations Restored: it truly is Church teaching from the Fathers and it shows the faulty science. Thank you for all you do, Fr. Chris.
Father I am learning a lot from you please continue
Thank you for joining us Mary and God bless you
Outstanding talk father
You are the BOMB-SHA-DIDLY!!
Thank you, used to defend God's creation just as you explained but I didn't have all the information you have. SO CONVINCING Thank you again.
Thank you Lisa for taking the time to watch with us and God bless you
The Behemoth in the book of Job is in all probability a dinosaur. One understanding of this is that they lived alongside people and were extinct during the world wide flood of Noah.
Behemoth is not a dinosaur. Only the fundamentalists say that.
It's interesting when Jesus Christ made the blind to see and the lame to walk -- or indeed brought the dead to life -- he didn't stretch that out to decades but effected it immediately with a word.
Thank Father Chris, I absolutely love going to seminary with you but how I wish I could retain it all - not too sure I can print the transcripts but gonna try! May God continue to bless you. I have so much to learn about our wonderful faith.
We are glad you are with us Mona and God bless you!
Thank you Father 🙏🏻❤️☦️❤️🙏🏻
2 Peter 3;8..... A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years like a day.
Watching from the Philippines, hello everyone!