Please stop with the theo-fiction. Leave that to Dan Brown.
He's not? Then why is is all scripture read through his prism in the Catholic Church, to the extent that whole libraries of ancient Catholic works have been tossed in the trash because "they didn't understand then what we understand now?" He may not be officially a saint, but in reality he's a bigger saint than all the others.
Kindly do not respond to me again without addressing the elephant in the room: whether or not the mere fact of their narration means that all the events described in Genesis must be historically true and accurate. What is it with you Catholics that you can believe anything except that?
You presume a universal survey of Catholic teaching which you do not possess.
“You Catholics are wrong because you believe X.”
“We don’t believe X.”
“Wrong again. Yes you do.”
* Aggressiveness: 100%
* Rigidity: 100%
* Openness: 0%
* Empathy: 0%
This is a one-note samba with ZC. And a tiresome one at that.
So Humani Generis not seeing any way to reconcile polygenesis with the Scripture...that’s “worshiping Darwin” to you? Reading all Scripture through his prism?
Weren’t rabbinic students specifically forbidden to study Genesis 1 until they reached a certain level of theological mastery? Have you reached that level? Are you even qualified to, as a Noahide?
You don’t get to define Genesis 1, ZC. Period, end of story. You don’t get to do it either way—as a liberalizing mythologizer or as a rigid literalist.
The text is God’s, and it means what God says it means, not what you or I say it means.
Now to what degree that is historical or not—and I am definitely on the side of historicism myself against liberal Catholics—I am willing to heed Him in the matter, and His Church as Mater et Magistra. Not you.