You wrote: “Nothing in Catholic doctrine is incompatible with modern Biology.”
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“I about busted a gut reading that one. Have you ever thought out the biological implications of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation?”
There are none, obviously. There’s that child’s understanding of theology again.
Biology is only what it is because God holds it in existence with His will. He is not bound by the strictures that He Himself created. He is outside and above the natural laws to which we are subject. The transubstantiation is not a matter of biology; it is an act of the Creator of the Universe.
By the way, cannibalism is the devouring of a member of one’s own species. Are you God, that it would be cannibalism for you to devour God?
You wrote: “Biology is only what it is because God holds it in existence with His will. He is not bound by the strictures that He Himself created. He is outside and above the natural laws to which we are subject. The transubstantiation is not a matter of biology; it is an act of the Creator of the Universe.”
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My response: Ah, thank you. So you concede that Catholic doctrine IS, in fact, incompatible with modern Biology. But you want a special pass for your doctrine because it belongs to the realm of “supernatural exceptions to the laws of science.” Where all things illogical and unscientific reside, I guess. I understand now. Thanks for conceding the point of my original post.
And on that last point, you wrote: “By the way, cannibalism is the devouring of a member of one’s own species. Are you God, that it would be cannibalism for you to devour God?”
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My response: Ahem, (the mythical person) Jesus appeared in the flesh, and died, and supposedly was resurrected in the flesh,no? And the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation states that the wafer is actually, physically changed into Jesus’s flesh during the Eucharist. That’s not cannibalism? And you didn’t address my point about the little conflict that poses with “modern Biology” as you call it, when you consider that the math involved in the fact that the Eucharist has been performed daily around the world for a couple thousand years. Let’s face it, it is as futile to try to reconcile biology (including evolutionary biology) with theology, as it is to reconcile alchemy with chemistry or astrology with cosmology.