Any young earth creationists out there?

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Nelka said:
The berries wouldn’t die in one day.
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No, of course they wouldn’t; you’re quite right. But why in that order, do you think? Living things before non-living things. Doesn’t that strike you as something that needs explaining?
 
Let me change “human” to “men.”

Were these animals that we supposedly evolved from men?
 
Except they do contradict. In the first one, the animals are created before the people, and the people are created simultaneously.

In the second one, Adam is created before both the animals and Eve.
 
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Many Saints have described him and I am able to form a picture with those descriptions.
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Terrific. There are lots and lots of pictures of the devil based on descriptions, but I’ve never seen one that looked like any kind of dinosaur. It’s those tiny little forearms - do they look like the saints’ descriptions of the devil?
 
OK so it seems that most of the people on this thread reject evolution in favor of creationism, not for scientific reasons, but because they sense that the former contradicts Scripture.

It seems that no one’s mind is going to be changed on this thread with regard to the scientific evidence.

So at this point, the best I can say, again, is:
  1. The Church has been consistent that the Bible is not God’s dictated words. That to know what is being asserted by God, we have to know what the biblical author is asserting. And as magisterial teaching and Catholic tradition has made clear, this involves looking to writing styles, genre, cultural influences, personalities, and so on. Catholics simply DO NOT take the Bible, including Genesis, literalistically as a rule. We are not Fundamentalists.
  2. The Church in her Magisterium as well as consistent tradition has been clear that the creation account in Genesis is, at the very least, in some sense “symbolic.” It uses “figurative language,” as the Catechism says. Moreover, faithful Catholic commentary often describes Genesis as a theological answer and response to the various Pagan mythologies of the day. The author had a theological point, not a scientific one.
  3. The Church in her Magisterium, even in the public comments by 20th and 21st century Popes and bishops, has clearly indicated that biological evolution – even of the body – is perfectly compatible with Catholic Faith (of course, this assumes a non-materialistic worldview and the truth of the Christian Faith. Atheistic evolution is out of the question).
So my main concern would be for those people, whether Catholic or otherwise, who happen to think that the Church is anti-science. Or that you can’t be Catholic and accept the scientific findings of evolution. You certainly can.

Peace!
 
From the Catechism:

105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69

"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72

108 Still, the Christian faith is not a “religion of the book.” Christianity is the religion of the “Word” of God, a word which is “not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living”.73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."74
 
“Too complicated to explain.”

God did not NEED a rib to make Eve, he chose to use a rib to make Eve.
 
Except they do contradict. In the first one, the animals are created before the people, and the people are created simultaneously.

In the second one, Adam is created before both the animals and Eve.
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This here should be enough to conclude that the biblical author of Genesis simply was NOT interested in giving a historical, scientific account of creation. Genesis is not a science textbook. As the Church teaches.
 
@Techno2000

Not if each of those represents a literal 24-hour day 😉
 
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