# Catholicism and Evolution: Polygenism and Original Sin Part II

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/catholicism-and-evolution-polygenism-and-original-sin-part-ii/13633>\
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**Tags:** Science, Theology\
**Created:** [April 24, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/catholicism-and-evolution-polygenism-and-original-sin-part-ii/13633 "2021-04-24T04:27:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/catholicism-and-evolution-polygenism-and-original-sin-part-ii/13633/11 "2021-04-26T21:00:43Z")

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This reminds me too much of our [old debate here about the first French speaker](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/was-there-a-first-french-speaker/10697), and I’m not sure it’s productive to revisit that exchange. That being said, regardless of whatever one believes about whether there was a first French speaker or first conscious person, one can can also say the same about the afterlife. There are two routes one can take:

1. Perhaps there is also a spectrum of levels in the afterlife, where _all_ living things (or even inanimate things too, assuming some sort of [panpsychism](https://aeon.co/ideas/panpsychism-is-crazy-but-its-also-most-probably-true) is true) share in an afterlife, but the duration and/or nature of the afterlife depends on how “human-like” they are.
2. Perhaps some living things do not have an afterlife, so there was indeed a “first hominid with an afterlife”, but we cannot determine when that person lived, just like we cannot determine the first French speaker.

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