# The Souls of our Ancestors

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**Created:** [June 25, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-souls-of-our-ancestors/486 "2018-06-25T23:28:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-souls-of-our-ancestors/486/6 "2018-06-26T02:02:11Z")

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As for the catholic view…

> [@A Catholic Approach to the Genealogical Adam](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-catholic-approach-to-the-genealogical-adam/116/101):
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> “But there remains the nagging question of the soul’s special creation. In 1996, Pope John Paul II expanded upon Pius’s earlier assertions on the soul, and he added his own view that the emergence of the human being, endowed with a soul directly created by God, amounted to an “ontological leap” in the history of evolution, one that could not be uncovered or located by science. Can the special creation of the soul be integrated into an evolutionary understanding of our emergence as a species?”

They seem to be solidly dualists who take a structuralist understanding of the Image of God.

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