Posted on 08/28/2004 9:10:46 PM PDT by AskStPhilomena
I find this headline unbelievable!
Well, see, then you're one of the people who doesn't pit science against religion. That's what the church is trying to do: prevent them from being pitted against one another.
Thank you!
Thanks for the promo!
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Not having much success... It's though, because it's not like Aquinas would use a good buzz word like "evolution." (Not to suggest that he espoused Darwinism!)
I'm trying to think of what word you might search for: Just brainstorming:
creation
Adam and Eve
account
story
Genesis
God's plan for man
My brain just dried up.
Actually, I don't think it was in reference to Adam and Eve, but rather merely to the millennia it took for the mountains to be built, etc. I looked up milllennia, ages, etc. The interesting thing about the quote was that it even teased towards a notion of evolution of organisms, albeit not necessarily anything resembling Darwinism. I learned about in college, but cannot find it now.
So I'll just ask that if anyone reading this knows to what I refer, please post it.
The point is that this is associated with something that science simply can not ever fathom, and indeed, will outright deny - the creation of our immortal souls. Where does our immortal soul fit into the scheme of creation via evolution? Science will always overlook or deny eternity ~ isn't that the only reason God made us? - for eternity?
It seems to me that if one holds to the evolution of man from an omeba to a monkey, then a caveman to todays man, somewhere in there, man did not have a soul or did not posess the ability to accept grace - which denied him eternal salvation - and to me, that alone is enough grounds to negate creation via evolution. Don't you agree?
Just to clarify: reading evolution into it would probably be very forced. Also, the context I learned about it was natural law, not science, and it was not directly related to natural law.
They [pagans] are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of [man as] many thousands of years, though reckoning by the sacred writings we find that not 6,000 years have yet passed.
Saint Augustine's (354 - 430) ~ The City of God
Jesus was born some 5200 years after creation so this world is not much more than 7200 years old.
Should say Chapter 10
Thank God I don't depend on fallible mortals for wisdom.
The Bible is VERY clear that the earth was created in seven days and on the seventh day God rested. Just goes to show, put your faith in God and not the Vatican or other fallible mortals.
You're well on your way to becoming a Baptist.
The world is much much older than 7200 years, and it has been proven, scientifically.
That's the problem with the fundamentalist interpretation of Scripture: it falls like a house of cards in the face of science.
Be sure to let St. Augustine know that when you meet him.
Regarding your tagline, the ID people (Johnson, Behe, Dembski, et al) believe in an old planet, billions of years old. However, they believe that Darwinist theory cannot explain how life developed or (especially) originated. That required a Designer.
St. Augustine was not a scientist.
Theres probably not many scientists who are saints.
"Regarding your tagline, the ID people (Johnson, Behe, Dembski, et al) believe in an old planet, billions of years old. However, they believe that Darwinist theory cannot explain how life developed or (especially) originated. That required a Designer."
I'm not advertising them with my "tagline".
As I mentioned to someone else, the Bible is sufficient for me for His wisdom. I'm not responsible for the "wisdom" (LOL) of other fallible mortals.
The earth was created in six days and on the seventh day He rested. We are made in His image and He is NOT an animal.
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