Any young earth creationists out there?

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Many times, but the conflict here is what the Popes said in their entirety. Like, ‘over here, he said this,’ then Pope Benedict clarifies what Pope John Paul II said, and Cardinal Schoenborn adds other things that Pope John Paul II said about the subject.
 
The sacred writers were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Even Jesus mentions Moses:

John 5:46

New International Version
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

New Living Translation
If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

English Standard Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
So how could Moses write about Jesus?
 
edwest211 said:
So how could Moses write about Jesus?
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Then it’s not a question of whether or not Scripture was divinely inspired, but what the Inspirer’s authorial intent was. Jesus, as we know, was extremely fond of parables, and that’s probably how the two creation accounts were meant to be taken. It’s impossible to accept them as scientific tracts, given the current information at our disposal.
 
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What alternative do you propose? That God used a carefully thought out design of millions and millions of animals which he almost immediately destroyed? Same death and destruction, just quicker and with less necessity. It that the theology of Creationism?
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It is the theology of the fall and how the fall sent the universe into decay and destruction.
 
I’ve read that many, many times but science is limited. And I get that. ONLY the Catholic Church has the whole story. And yes, going in circles will be the most likely outcome, again. For eternity - if not longer.

Ed
 
edwest211 said:
ONLY the Catholic Church has the whole story.
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The whole theological story, but theology is not interchangeable with science. All she can tell us is that God made the world: the rest we have to decipher for ourselves.
 
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Where do you get all these solid arguments? I would like to know!!
 
Respectfully, I’ve read that many times as well. And I’d like to point out that only atheists are the ones who - mostly - uncritically accept evolution as taught. I’ve been fortunate enough to have others remind me about Church teaching and Divine Revelation - Revelation that is true. Jesus again,

Mark 10:6

New International Version
"But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’

New Living Translation
But ‘God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation.

English Standard Version
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male
 
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edwest211 said:
And I’d like to point out that only atheists are the ones who - mostly - uncritically accept evolution as taught.
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I didn’t accept it uncritically. Like I said before, I was actually a YEC coming in to college.
 
Hugh_Farey said:
I have some patience with your, and Edwest’s, quotebombs, but really an hour and a half of this is too much. I’ve managed ten minutes of bombastic self-congratulation, and won’t go on. If you think these people have something important to say, perhaps you’d like to tell us in a nutshell?
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The earth is in a special place and verified by recent satellite data. I suggest everyone watch this. Start after the intro if you do not have patience…

 
I understand. To put it another way, “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist” ([Richard] Dawkins 1986, 6).
 
edwest211 said:
“Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist”
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I’m not an atheist. Nor do I recall ever meeting any atheist biology students/professors at my university.
 
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