Re: Can someone please give me the Catholic ‘teaching’ that says evolution is not opposed to Catholic teaching.
My but aren’t you theistic evolutionists as short on ‘Catholic teaching’ that says evolutionism and Catholicism are compatible, as you were in not being able to answer my other thread asking one of you to show us how evolutionism and the dogmas on Adam and Eve and Original Sin can be made comply with evolution.
On this thread the best you guys can come up with is Humani Generis, an encyclical letter from Pope Pius XII that merely carried warnings that evolutionism MUST comply with Catholic dogma, not that it IS.
‘If such conjectural opinions are directly or indirectly opposed to the doctrine revealed by God, then the demand that they be recognized can in no way be admitted.’
At best it allows evolutionists TRY to show how it can be reconciled with Catholic dogma. This way everybody will see it DOESN’T.
But Pope Pius XII was well aware that you theistic-evolutionists, so cock-sure of your ‘science’ that he had to warn others about YOU:
‘Some however, rashly transgress this liberty of discussion, when they act as if the origin of the human body from pre-existing and living matter were already completely certain and proved by the facts which have been discovered up to now and by reasoning on those facts, and as if there were nothing in the sources of divine revelation which demands the greatest moderation and caution in this question…’
Tell me half the threads on this forum on evolution were not written by Catholics who place science ahead of revelation and catholic theology in their list of infallible beliefs.
Humani Generis’s final warning
’ When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.’
more no. nos for evolutionists, including the question none of you could answer on my other thread about Adam and Eve and Original Sin.’
Now someone correct me if I am wrong but doesn’t Cardinal Ratzinger hint or point to Adam and Eve as methaphor for ‘mankind’ in his book In The Beginning 1981, reprinted when he wasa made pope? I certainly know I have read many such accounts written by ‘Catholics’ that include all the no, nos forbidden by Pius XII above.
So, where in God’s name does the above say evolution is not not opposed to Catholic faith? You first have to compile your theology, submit it to the Church, and then you will see if your mish-mash is compatible to Catholic teaching.
‘provided that all are prepared to submit to the judgment of the Church, to whom Christ has given the mission of interpreting authentically the Sacred Scriptures and of defending the dogmas of faith.’
Given the pathetic three liner theology by one of you on the other thread, we find you have NOTHING to say. Compare this with the 1000 posts on the ‘scientific evidence’,
Finally, here is the new religion of the evolutionists:
Fr Guy Consolmagno SJ, Vatican Observatory, revising the Galileo case once again for all gullible Catholics today, said recently:
‘or, to put it in another way, religion tells us that God made the universe, science tells us how He did it.’
Now time was when Catholic theology told us how God created and there is a wealth of theology on the matter. How sad to see all this theology redundant. Evolutionism, any Catholic worth his or her salt should see if they had any faith in them, is a doctrinal POISON.
Lent is coming.
