Species Adaptation Quotes
As global warming affects our entire planet, Plant pests and diseases travel North at a rate of 2 miles a year moving from the colder climates into the warmer ones where they now can thrive while they could not before the warming. That, in turn, changes the mix of trees and plants as well as distribution and range of many animals. The same thing happens in the Southern hemisphere only the warmer areas expand South rather than North.
The Pope went on to state that Evolution was consistent with Roman Catholic doctrine, changing a position that had been taken by the Catholic Church and many fundamental protestant denominations. A few actually still reject evolution even after all the evidence and proof of the basic Darwinian theses. There is nothing in evolution that per se denies the existence of God or even that God created the universe and the mechanism of evolution. That is why the Catholic Church and so many Protestant Churches, Judaism, Buddhists, and so many other religions have no theological problem with evolution. Those religious groups who have difficulty with evolution are those fundamentalists (Protestants, Jewish and Muslims) who believe in the literal truth of Holy Scripture. They also assume that God designed each particular plant or animal species. Other religions hold that it was God who created the mechanism of evolution and that is how all the species developed and are developing today. Some religious evolutionists believe that evolution is God’s mechanism for perfecting man.
