Any young earth creationists out there?

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Honestly I don’t care how much longer you’ve been posting. Hugh is right. Why do you attribute to those who disagree with you as having science as a God? This is downright false. I do not have science as a God.
 

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www.newsweek.com

This was one of the featured links from the orthodox (and, oftentimes, even conservative) Catholic page NewAdvent.org. Clearly, we as Catholics can celebrate science, and even accept the findings relating to an old Earth and evolution.
 
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Science, by definition, cannot, and usually, but not always, does not concern itself with the supernatural. In my view of popular media sources, nothing made life, and certainly nothing made human beings. We’re nothing special. Snails, human beings, weeds… same thing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/28478

Some people love to point to certain uneducated parts of the country as the primary reason more people do not “accept” evolution in the US.
 
I have a degree in Physics. I know full well the limitations of science and I also know what it can and cannot explain. Science concerns itself with natural processes and has no business with the supernatural. Science even has problems with natural processes such as modeling complex multi-body dynamic processes. I spent an early part of my career with trying to predict and update satellite and asteroid orbital information using approximation methods which is quite limited. So I do know that science is limited.

I do not depend on the mass media to get science information. You are preaching to the choir here.
 
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Definitely not. As a moderator on another forum, a lot of lurkers don’t say anything but do read things. As someone who studies the mass media and popular culture as part of my job and on my own time, it is very sad to see two trends that differ from what it was 40 years ago: Americans, too many Americans, do not look at the media with a critical eye. The media is more concerned with issue advocacy and promoting an increasingly more biased view than it did in the past. Americans have also been conditioned to look at or hear sound bites: TLDR? Really? “Dude, that wall of text was too much for me.” Really? On average, 200 + pages of research on a project is average for me, which is half (or more) of what the main writer has to do.

Who has time anymore? I’m seeing more crazy drivers on the road and where are they rushing to? They’ve got DVRs and they’re behind by two months? The preaching the choir is getting is humans are just the same as the road kill you pass on the road.

P.S.

Does NASA still publish (I forget the original title) “Space junk and other stuff in orbit”? Kind of hard to launch very expensive satellites when their path to orbit contains tools, parts and other junk, aside from rocks, in orbit that could cause significant damage if struck.
 
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How would a Catholic know if they could accept evolution or not?

Say a non-Catholic considering conversion to Catholicism accepts evolution and wants to know if he or she can still maintain that all biological organisms (including the human body) are related and derive from a common ancestor/organism(s) and have evolved over time. How would this potential convert determine whether or not their prior acceptance of evolution can be maintained as a Catholic?
 
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There is no requirement that a Catholic not agree with evolution.

Catholics are not required to believe in a literal six day creation story. In fact this six day creation story is more a product of American Protestant Fundamentalists. I doubt you will see this view in other Catholic countries such as Brazil or Portugal :portugal:.
 
I think NASA still does. I worked in one of the tracking stations that fed both NASA and the USAF Space command telemetry data for these space junk and satellites :artificial_satellite:.
 
Who cares about other countries? The message here is: 'science tells us no six days, period!!!" “You’re obviously infected by the Protestant virus.” I was raised Catholic. I never cared to know what Protestants think or believe.
 
My point is that the literal six day creation story is not a widespread Catholic belief but one that is peculiar to the US.

If you ask someone like Jharek I think he will tell you the same thing.
 
What? I don’t understand. Yes, evolution means we have common ancestors branching narrower and narrower back in time. I dare to go further: our first common ancestor is a single-celled organism.

But tell me how someone can determine for himself if he can be Catholic and accept evolution.

I have access to plenty of Catholic resources, media, and persons. Should I ask my parish priest? How about my bishop? Would Pope Francis know if I could accept evolution? Should I write him? What about an evangelical ministry like Catholic Answers? They give “Catholic answers” all the time. Would they know? Is there a certain university or Catholic theologian you have in mind? How should I, the typical Catholic, determine whether no not a Catholic can accept evolution?
 
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Thank you. I recall looking over an old issue. It was basically a very long list of everything worth noting, its current orbital path, degree of deviation (if applicable), altitude and more details if worth noting. Of course, there was the rare “this collided with that” which meant the object changed orbit, disappeared (presumably due to collision) or burned up after.
 
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You’re free to believe that but significant stumbling blocks exist, like the special creation of Adam and Eve.
 
Yes, it’s a stumbling block for those who believe in the special creation of Adam and Eve, I agree.

Good thing the Church does not require that!

Pius XII – and the Popes since who have clarified – have stated that we must believe in the creation of the soul that did not evolve. But the human body? Of course that’s allowable!
 
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Being in the International Space Station can be risky especially one is in essentially a shooting gallery.
 
You’re free to believe that. Read Humani Generis by Pius XII. No other “Adams” are allowed.
 
People don’t realize what it’s like being hit by even a small meteor traveling thousands of miles an hour in space. Example: "On my first visit to the Smithsonian in Washington in 1993, I was shocked at how thin the walls of the LM on display there at the time actually were. It’s one of my abiding memories of that visit.

“In 2011, at Spacefest III, I had an opportunity to discuss my recollection with Apollo 12 LMP Alan Bean. I specifically asked him if the LM walls were really as thin in places as 3 sheets of aluminium foil as I recalled. Alan replied, “3 sheets ? … more like 1 sheet thick!”. He reminded me that the LM was only pressurised to 5 psi, as opposed to the standard earth sea-level atmospheric pressure of 14.7 psi. He also said that you just had to be careful of your movements inside the LM.”

Just look up the skin thickness for the ISS.
 
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