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To: AskStPhilomena

"In what appears to be its latest capitulation to worldly wisdom, the Vatican apparatus now assumes (contrary to the teaching of Pius XII in Humanae Generis) that the evolution of men from animals is a proven fact."

BFD.

So what if God used a method that looks like evolution to create man? When you're God, you do things the way you want to.


4 posted on 08/28/2004 9:34:08 PM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc; AskStPhilomena
So what if God used a method that looks like evolution to create man?

God used no such method to create Adam and Eve.

6 posted on 08/28/2004 10:00:16 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: dsc

PROMOTION OF EVOLUTION

CCC, 283: ...scientific studies...have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the development of life-forms and the appearance of man.

To speak of the "development of life-forms" and scientific studies surrounding the "appearance of man" is unquestionably to speak of evolution - and to speak of enriching our knowledge of evolution is undeniably to imply that evolution is a fact, since knowledge is of truth, not error. The Catechism thus treats evolution as factual and certain. This approach to evolution, however, was condemned by Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis (36):

Some however rashly transgress this liberty of discussion, when they act as if the origin of the human body from pre-existing and living matter were already completely certain and proved by the fact...and as if there were nothing in the sources of divine revelation which demands the greatest moderation and caution in this question.

This passage in the Catechism is, then, at minimum a rash transgression.


7 posted on 08/28/2004 10:18:13 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: dsc
So what if God used a method that looks like evolution to create man? When you're God, you do things the way you want to.

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?

29 posted on 08/29/2004 7:59:41 AM PDT by Stubborn (It is the Mass that matters)
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To: dsc
So what if God used a method that looks like evolution to create man? When you're God, you do things the way you want to.

That is the essence of what I learned in a Dogmatic Theology course over 40 years ago.

41 posted on 08/29/2004 8:41:31 AM PDT by verity (The Liberal Media is America's Enemy)
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To: dsc

***So what if God used a method that looks like evolution to create man***

Because by accepting it you are denying the literal truth of the Scriptures - and by implication, salvation through Jesus Christ.

"Death came by one man..."


68 posted on 08/29/2004 9:56:49 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: dsc
When you're God, you do things the way you want to.

But if you did something one way then described it a totally different way, you would be either a fool or a liar. Which one do you think God is ?

346 posted on 08/31/2004 3:19:33 PM PDT by UsnDadof8 (Virgnian by birth, Texan by choice)
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