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	Monogenism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		monogenism (or monogenesis) is a word meaning "single origin".
		It has been used in various contexts as an antonym for polygenism, or "multiple origin".
		In linguistics monogenism refers to the theory that all languages derive from a single Proto-World language, as opposed to the view that language may have evolved independently on more than one occasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monogenesis (158 words)

	Thesis 17: The whole human race stem from one human pair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Biblical Commission (Decree of June 30th, 1909, D 2123, RSS page 123) states "the oneness of the human race" as pertaining to the very foundations of the Christian religion and therefore, the literal historical sense of Scripture on which this doctrine is founded, is not to be called in question.
		The teaching of Scripture on this point may therefore be said to be positive and clear, rather than the opposite, as people too frequently say today under the influence of evolutionary ideology.
		But the Catholic doctrine of the unity of the human race, that is, of monogenism, is an insuperable barrier to the false evolutionary hypothesis.
	home.nycap.rr.com /razzpage/theses18.html (269 words)

	Fr. Hardon Archives - THESIS VII: Adam was an Individual Man, From Whom the Whole Human Race Derives Its Origin
		In fact we are not directly concerned with proving monogenism from palaeontology or other scientific data, but rather to establish the unitary origins of humanity on dogmatic grounds - and with dogmatic ends in view.
		As a statement of Monogenism, our thesis is opposed to Polygenism, whether of the kind which claims that mankind derives from many original ancestors or the type which says there were more than a single original pair.
		Profession of faith of Pope Pelagius I (556-561): "I confess that all men until the end of time, born of Adam and dying with Adam and his wife, who themselves were not born of other parents...will rise and stand before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive each one according to his works" DB 228a.
	www.therealpresence.org /archives/God/God_012.htm (3849 words)

	JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Bad News For Salt Lake
		Sep 17, 2004 12:34:31 PM Scientists, though similar study of human genes, have also concluded that the Catholic Church's insistence on monogenism is false, akin to the falseness of the geocentrism She once endorsed.
		Sep 17, 2004 4:50:08 PM I think that monogenism is one of the Church's most beautiful teachings.
		Monogenism probably is to now what geocentrism was to the 1500s.
	www.jimmyakin.org /2004/09/bad_news_for_sa.html (936 words)

	Re: Original Sin
		For Roman Catholics (I won't speak for others) the idea of monogenism, and a "single source" of original sin, must be dealt with, but a way has been opened that allows polygenism.
		But that is not all important, as we can refer to a single event, or, given the idea of the unity of man, to an act that involved the failings of many.
		Either possibility allows for an understanding of the origins of man that moves beyond monogenism (and most importantly for me, remains allied with doctrine).
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/talk.origins/msg09908.html (541 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Ignorant Science: The Eighteenth Century's Development of a Scientific Racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		"Monogenism" therefore is the belief that all humans find their origin in the same original parents, and if one is to believe the Scriptural account of the origin of humanity and its gradual spread to diverse geographical regions (including Africa), this is undoubtedly the biblical position.
		But as we have seen, monogenism, as espoused by many of the philosophes assumed that all variations (away from the white) in people groups was due to a degeneration through environmental causes of the original white(r) people.
		This dual definition of monogenism, namely the biblical account on the one hand and environmental theory (presumably) on the other, resulted in its being targeted by both critics of the Church and of environmentalism.
	www.quodlibet.net /foutz-racism.shtml (5860 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The reactionary doctrine of poligenism was opposed by the doctrine of monogenism by the progressive scientists.
		Thus monogenism, based on similarity of races and peoples of modern mankind by a complex of the major attributes, advocates that all peoples and their languages historically go back to a uniform parental language, a pra-source.
		But we count that the supporters of monogenism, according to which all peoples and their languages historically go back to a single source and have equally deep ethnic roots, would pursue the ancient history of the peoples.
	sophistikatedkids.com /turkic/20Roots/ZakievGenesis/ZakievGenesis19-42En.htm (7722 words)

	Original Sin
		Monogenism, for example, that is, the origin of the human race from one couple, is impossible for science to accept.
		To answer this question he asks whether original sin demands monogenism, and he replies that polygenism exists, at least as far as the first couple is concerned, since theories about the body of Eve being derived from Adam have fallen by the wayside.
		On this basis he argues that it is not necessary to maintain monogenism in order to uphold the doctrine of original sin if we imagine a polygenistically derived group that formed a biological and historical unit, and hence, the magisterium ought to refrain from censuring polygenism in order to protect the doctrine of original sin.
	www.innerexplorations.com /chtheomortext/human.htm (17567 words)

	Genesis, Evolution, Natural Selection
		This implies that the appearance of man did not take place on a large scale, that is to say at several places on the planet, as the majority of the paleontologists supposed before, but descended from a small group of individuals.
		The evolution from inanimate matter to living matter therefore demonstrated a reduction of the diversity, which finished by a singularity, that of the first cell giving birth to the biological evolution and thus opening an entirely new dimension.
		This is why before this step there is a decreasing diversity (and an increasing complexity) in approaching man, those of all animal species prefiguring the unique gender of man (see also figure 8).
	www.geocities.com /ulrich_utiger/gen2.html (5665 words)

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		Monogenism is an interpretation, and that is all it is, an interpretation, besides there is no obligation to affirm it.
		Also, it would be biologically improbable that the whole of mankind, which covers such extraordinary dimensions in the biosphere, would proceed from only one couple.
		In other words, I do not believe there is a one couple monogenism, or even a group monogenism.
	catholicphilosophy.com /sys-tmpl/chapter3224231 (2215 words)

	Evolution and the Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Further, see also the EWTN article published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, "The Credo of Paul VI: Theology of Original Sin and the Scientific Theory of Evolution" by Roberto Masi:
		Humanity has its origin in a single couple; this couple committed the sin against God and as a result of this all their children are born in original sin.
		Or it is possible to admit a biological polygenism and a theological monogenism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolution_and_the_Roman_Catholic_Church (1705 words)

	American Theories of Polygenesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the nineteenth century, by contrast, the unity of origin, monogenism, was not understood to imply the unity of the species, and vice versa.
		For example, John Bachman, the most outspoken defender of monogenism among natural historians in mid-century, was both a slaveholder and a defender of slavery.
		Alexander Winchell is the most prominent example in the nineteenth century of a scientist in the United States trying to come to terms with the debate between monogenism and polygenism after Darwin.
	www.thoemmes.com /science/polygenesis_intro.htm (4506 words)

	THE CREDO OF PAUL VI
		This is the point which the Fathers wish to teach; the other elements are taken from the then contemporary theology, without wishing by this to attribute to them a greater value than that which they already had.
		Man instead would have attained this perfection in a slow evolutionary process by means of his own efforts and endeavours—just as science basically maintains.
		Revelation is not concerned as to whether monogenism or polygenism occurred.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Theology/SINEVOL.HTM (2517 words)

	Catholic Answers Forums - Adam, Eve and Evolution
		The human race really did descend from an original pair of two human beings (a teaching known as monogenism) rather than a pool of early human couples (a teaching known as polygenism).
		My view is that the easiest solution to the problem is to abandon the doctrine of monogenism (and in fact this has been done in practice by almost every practising Catholic biologist).
		If the Church accepts (as she does) that creation in six days is an allegory, I fail to see the difficulty in accepting that the story of Adam and Eve is an allegory about the emergence of humanity.
	forums.catholic.com /showthread.php?t=6844 (5406 words)

	Catholic Answers Forums - The Church and Monogenism (and Other Non-Defined Teachings)
		When and if such a paradigm shift emerges, presumably it will be one that makes such obvious sense to everyone that it will require no elaborate rationalizations by any vested-interest organizations to ensure its coherent transmission to future generations.
		So, even if, say, a particular hominid population evolved into what we would recognize (at this distance in time) as the species homo sapiens, there is no way to tell whether God may not have singled out a particular pair of that group to be the first true humans, i.e., having a spiritual soul.
		Notice, I did not ask what the Church's official position is on evolution or monogenism.
	forum.catholic.com /printthread.php?s=40328f6b4dca36eea0bd54149eb9b21c&t=20177 (1463 words)

	St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
		All men find a common brotherhood in that Adam is the ultimate father of the human race with Eve being the mother of all.
		This teaching — this doctrine is called MONOGENISM — and it was emphasized by no less a person than Pope Pius XII of holy memory.
		In short, MONOGENISM — one ultimate parent — one ultimate begetter — one main generator — must be held by all Catholics.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/COLCABRI.HTM (1070 words)

	[Portail Minkowska]
		From a broader point of view, however, polygenism and monogenism can be regarded as specific expressions of enduring alternative attitudes toward the variety of mankind.
		But even in a somewhat more restricted sense, polygenist thinking continued to be manifest for some time after the descent of man had become part of the conventional wisdom of Western thought.
		However, the liberation of evolutionism from monogenism was in fact already the taking place.
	www.minkowska.com /imprimer.php3?id_article=78 (2908 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Anthropological Society of London
		The members of the Ethnological Society were, on the whole, inclined to believe that humans were shaped by their environment; when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection, they supported it.
		They also believed in monogenism and tended to be politically liberal, especially on matters related to race.
		Hunt and his closest followers were, in contrast, vehemently anti-Darwinian and strong supporters of polygensim.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Anthropological_Society_of_London (448 words)

	A Lamont October 1996
		He accepts that in the past Church teaching on original sin has logically implied monogenism, and that scientific evidence has shown that monogenism is false and polygenism is true.
		Notice that the hypothetical theologian is not saying that because science has shown monogenism to be wrong, Catholics should accept that some parts of Church teaching (viz., the ones that state or imply monogenism) are mistaken, and should abandon them.
		He is saying that because (in his view) science has shown monogenism to be wrong, monogenism never really was a part of the Christian faith--it was only a historically conditioned accretion.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1996/964ALamo.htm (8601 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Natural Rights And Natural History
		This view entailed, obviously, claiming that all races were of the same species (monogenism), with any systematic differences resulting from environmental or accidental in- fluences.
		He defended his position in favor of monogenism in a work entitled An Essay on the Causes and Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species, presented first in 1787 and then redone in a second (and much reworked) edition, published in 1801.
		Polygenism, besides the moral implications of its claim of innate differences, added in one version the hypothesis that amalgamation would lead to the extinction of all, as the progeny of intermarriage would not prove fecund over time.
	www.claremont.org /writings/crb/fall2003/ceaser.html?FORMAT=print (3471 words)

	News/Updates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Monogenism - the theory that humans started from a single origin.
		Often supported by the religious establishment because it is sort of consistent with the 'god created man' thing.
		The Nazi's apparently used a derivation of this to justify their actions.
	home.comcast.net /~fcress/news_updates.htm (1509 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		Father Oakes: In my opinion, the debate about "monogenism" -- the doctrine that says that all humans share the same primal parents -- and "polygenism" -- that the races come from independent lines of evolution -- has been misconceived, for both are true depending on where you stop along mankind's family tree.
		Of course, if genetics establishes that there is a primal couple, that couple could then trace its ancestry back to a common set of ancestral parents.
		So according to genetics, both monogenism and polygenism are true, but at several times and at various points along the evolutionary tree.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=74825 (1637 words)

	Review: A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
		He also had to reconcile monogenism with the continuing existence of flness (a belief that ‘Negroes’ would whiten up to the human ‘norm’ was one Eurocentric example of Enlightenment-Revolutionary optimism) and to reconcile God’s intentions with environmentalist science.
		For Dain, then, there was no simple dialectic between monogenism and polygenism, or between fl and white writing, and no straightforward teleology from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century biology.
		There was inter-textual reflexivity, but each theory was constructed from a complex matrix of imperatives that included political events, economic and social change, and individual experience, as well as reactions to previous writings.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/sarsonS.html (2360 words)

	The First International Christian Polygamist (FICP): Articles 26. Were Adam and Eve a Prototype of Human Marriage? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		If something is clear of Adam’s one wife is that God wanted all humanity to descend from one pair (monogenism), for obvious anti-racist reasons, putting up with the incestuous marriage of Adam’s children.
		By which, by the way, He showed that, unlike Church leaders, He knew the “Theorem of the second best” and that, confronted with two evils, you have to choose the smallest one (by which the argument that polygamy is bad, because it WOULD HAVE BEEEN bad in Paradise, disappears).
		If God wanted to show something with this fact, it, presumably was, that all men came from only one couple (monogenism) and this desire seems to be so strong, that He forced Adam’s children to commit incest.
	www.nccg.org /fecpp/CPM026-AdamEve.html (1799 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The first is called monogenism, meaning that humans are the direct descendants of two original humans, one man and one woman.
		Polygenism, on the other hand, sticks to the idea that humans descend from an original group of couples.
		The Church believes in monogenism for specific reasons, but most importantly, because of original sin.
	www.nd.edu /~jclarke/Theology/denom.htm (1304 words)

	Part One: The Apostles' Creed - "I Believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth"
		Christians cannot lend their support to a theory which involves the existence, after Adam’s time, of some earthly race of men, truly so-called, who were not descended ultimately from him, or else supposes that Adam was the name given to some group of primordial ancestors.”
		In technical language, only monogenism (mono = one) and not polygenism (poly = many + genus = race) is compatible with the Catholic faith.
		There was no major dissent from the biblical teaching about the fall of Adam until the rise of Pelagianism in the last part of the fourth century.
	www.therealpresence.org /essentials/creed/acc02.htm (3186 words)

	Marjorie Grene, David Depew - The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History - Reviewed by David Hull, Northwestern ...
		In this penultimate chapter of their book, Grene and Depew evaluate the contributions made by biologists and philosophers of biology to such issues as the species problem, reducibility, function and teleology--issues that have been debated in some form or other from Aristotle to the present.
		In the final chapter, Grene and Depew address a grab bag of topics that are not all that related to the book as a whole--the descent of man, polygenism and monogenism once again, the nature/nurture controversy, brains, language, mind and the human genome project.
		Because of my own interests, I might be excused for treating one issue in my own work that Grene and Depew discuss--the metaphysical status of species as the things that evolve.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1561 (2284 words)

	allAfrica.com: West Africa [book review]: A Review of Two Books Dealing with Slavery and Colonialism in West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Theories regarding the "Chain of Being," although posited according to the Church-imposed theory of the monogenism of human creation, placed the fl African on the bottom rung of the evolutionary ladder--or at the extreme end of a postulated chain of progressive degeneration--just above the orangutan, wrote Jacques Philibert Rousselot de Surgy around 1763 (p.
		For some Enlightenment era thinkers, Voltaire among others, the specific physical characteristics of Blacks seemed to be a self-evident argument in favor of polygenism, a theory postulating the separate creation of the races of humankind, leading to the conclusion that Blacks were a separate, not fully human, species.
		Polygenism had the added attraction, among the more anticlerical French thinkers, of standing in opposition to the Church-backed monogenism, according to which all humanity was descended from Adam and Eve.
	allafrica.com /stories/200511300742.html (4801 words)

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