Dinosaurs and the Flood

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Divine Revelation is not established by any Saint. I find nothing in the catechism that declares God to have revealed the age of the earth. A prayer that references an age does not rise to that level.
 
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Very sad. I’m glad the educational system doesn’t hold that view.
 
The saints are in the main not the magisterium. You might infer the view of the magisterium from your understanding of positions held by saints, but they are not the same. To the best of my knowledge, the Magisterium has not taught anything about the age of the earth.

Yet it does tend to capture the key elements of the faith…but not the age of the earth.
 
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So it’s just the Doctors now - not all the Saints? I await your source for this assertion. If it’s personal opinion, you might just acknowledge that.
 
The catechism was very recently updated. I don’t think the age of the earth was addressed in this update either.
 
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There is no scientific definition of a resurrected body. I certainly have no idea what that term means.
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Exactly. Science may investigate a miracle; and to an extent a miracle is something which science cannot explain, and which often seems to contradict science. But when confronted with a miracle, sciences’s answer is “it cannot be explained” - which does not mean that it did not occur.

As to what “resurrected body” means, it is the information post burial of Christ as to his repeated appearances prior to his observed ascension.
 
This is getting silly. As is usual with these threads, we are now reduced to random anonymous people on the internet asserting that they know better then the Pope (better than many Popes, maybe all Popes) what the Church teaches and does not. Not just that the Church is wrong - but that they know better than the Popes and the Cardinals and the bishops and the theologians and everyone else, what the Church is allowed to teach.
 
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Start to attack the poster instead of addressing the claim.
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Does your doctor consider it a personal attack when you ask where she went to medical school?

I think you two just might not understand what you’re attacking. Evolutionary biology, theology, and scriptural studies are complicated enough that even a college level education in them isn’t sufficient to be an expert.

Don’t be the anti-intellectual who rejects the existence of expertise.
 
I believe your personal opinion is that the Doctors of the Church are part of the magisterium.
 
I don’t think you are correct about that, but even if you were, why are you rejecting the teachings of the current Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope St. John Paul, and so forth?
 
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Don’t be the anti-intellectual who rejects the existence of expertise.
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I might be more interested in whether they cheated their way through.

Trust and never challenge the experts leads to ruin.
 
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This is getting silly. As is usual with these threads, we are now reduced to random anonymous people on the internet asserting that they know better then the Pope (better than many Popes, maybe all Popes) what the Church teaches and does not. Not just that the Church is wrong - but that they know better than the Popes and the Cardinals and the bishops and the theologians and everyone else, what the Church is allowed to teach.
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Will this also apply to the Popes who acknowledged Eve coming from the side of Adam?
 
How can something which is not stated be an error?

The Bible does not contain the age of the earth, and those who try to force scripture into saying it are attempting to use scripture to teach science.

It does not teach science.
 
The Holy Spirit was sleeping and only suddenly awoke to straighten it ll out. 😀
 
It does not contain the age of the earth, because you are presuming the genealogy is accurate down to every person in the chain, and your only proof it that it is stated in the Bible; so you are presuming that those who wrote the genealogy had the same intent that you do.

Yes, I saw your quotes to scripture; but they do not prove your point. Nor does the Church anywhere teach that there are no jumps in the genealogies.
 
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What was I supposed to read? I saw no statement that the Doctors are part of the Magisterium. But I did read that they make errors:

“ It is not in any way … a declaration that no error is to be found in the teaching of the Doctor. It is, indeed, well known that the very greatest of them are not wholly immune from error.“

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I reject you assertions about those things…
 
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