Does biology need the theory that all life shares a common ancestor?

[Christy (Christy Hemphill)]

@Al-Khalil

Do you not have other “theological constraints” than Roman Catholics?

Yes, I would imagine so.

@Al-Khalil

Could you please point out these “theological constraints” in Kemp’s paper?

I believe the official position of the Catholic Church is human monogenesis, at least of the soul, as laid out in the papal encyclical Humani Generis.

When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents.