Any young earth creationists out there?

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I’ve read that many, many times. Catholics are free to accept another interpretation. The Biology textbook is not a secular bible.
 
Its just that the history of darwinism is littered with missing links, errors, hoaxes, data changes wheras
the Word of God stands forever
 
Then I’d have to defer to the experts.

But as JPII said, evolution is “more than a hypothesis.”
 
Pope Benedict

"In the book, Benedict reflected on a 1996 comment of his predecessor, John Paul II, who said that Charles Darwin’s theories on evolution were sound, as long as they took into account that creation was the work of God, and that Darwin’s theory of evolution was “more than a hypothesis.”

“The pope (John Paul) had his reasons for saying this,” Benedict said. “But it is also true that the theory of evolution is not a complete, scientifically proven theory.”

Benedict added that the immense time span that evolution covers made it impossible to conduct experiments in a controlled environment to finally verify or disprove the theory.

“We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory,” he said."
 
And what are we supposed to take away from this?

From my vantage point, there is enough evidence of biological evolution. I’m no expert, but I’m content with it. It would hurt my faith if we were required to reject evolution, because it would make the Faith seems unscientific and not open to extra-biblical forms of knowledge. Thankfully, Catholicism is open to the findings of faith and reason.

As long as we admit that faithful Catholics can accept the scientific consensus, which is that evolution really does explain the diversity of living organisms.
 
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Its played its part and will continue to do so in the Great Apostasy which is prophesied
 
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I’m speaking figuratively. I think you know what I meant .
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Actually, I can’t be sure when someone says something like that. I have seen a number of anti-evolution people complain that “I’m not descended from monkeys!” Despite the fact that evolution doesn’t say that we are.
 
Yes. And also bananas and mushrooms and paramicae and cacti and sea squirts and bakers yeast and snails and dinosaurs and tuna fish and so on and so forth.
 
God worked infallibly in Creation. He did not wind up a little toy called evolution and let it accidentally create and modify living things.
 
These two do not seem mutually exclusive to me. Change happens. We see it all the time. Change is a property of the created, isn’t it?
 
You must have seen the posters showing the seven stages from chimp to man

they’re the flagship posters of darwinism
 
God does not simply sit back, observe, learn, and then decide.

From all eternity, He has a plan in his eternal “now.” He knows exactly how the initial conditions of the Universe — in the Big Bang — must be for everything to precisely unfold in his magnificent plan.

Evolution is no threat to divine providence, precisely because God is not just another “thing” out there. He’s not just an alternative explanation, or an alternative theory. He’s the very ground of ALL that is. God makes all else intelligible.

God is not limited to how He “does” creation. He obviously wants some participation from biological creatures in the formation of new life. He obviously desires to act non-aggressively, since he incorporates secondary causation.

Evolution is not a threat. Just as it takes two human beings to get together to form new life, so this principle of interdependence is found throughout creation. Even the young earth creationist can see this. We take in water, and nutrients, and depend on external matter and organisms for own own survival. We are all connected. Even the image of God forming Adam from the mud depicts this.

Evolution is just another example, another process, of the same principle evident to everyone: That God acts non-violently through secondary causes.

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But that contradicts the Biology textbook. It is the whole and complete answer. God is just a word. The average person gets the idea that molecules to man is the answer. God? Pfft.
 
God is the Word, the intelligent Logos that informs and brings creatures — all creation — to their final end, no matter what process.

Evolution is just one other step in determining how God “did it.”

You may claim evolution makes God irrelevant. That’s completely wrong. It only makes special creation of each and every species (one by one) irrelevant. But so? Why do we have to believe that each organism was created specifically, moment by moment, as the poetic narrative of Genesis states? Is Genesis a science textbook? How is God’s creation any less true or grand if evolution was the means that God brought about variety and diversity?
 
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In the Bible, we see Jesus creating things and working miracles instantly, not over an extended amount of time.
 
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