God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says

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CNS is a valid news source, look in the lower left.
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not sure if you are asking about CNS our Spirit Daily.
SD is a news roundup up service, and carries links with headlines to stories all over the world of interest to Catholics, but with a slant on alleged miracles, visions, locutions, scandals, kind of a Catholic “news of the weird”. its editor Michael Brown is also hyped on Medjugore. it is a valuable site for a lot of great links below, 90% of which are reliable, but not a great job has been done in weeding out problematic links.

CNS is as PP has stated a reliable Catholic news wire source.
 
not sure if you are asking about CNS our Spirit Daily.
SD is a news roundup up service, and carries links with headlines to stories all over the world of interest to Catholics, but with a slant on alleged miracles, visions, locutions, scandals, kind of a Catholic “news of the weird”. its editor Michael Brown is also hyped on Medjugore. it is a valuable site for a lot of great links below, 90% of which are reliable, but not a great job has been done in weeding out problematic links.

CNS is as PP has stated a reliable Catholic news wire source.
I meant CNS, thanks for checking.
 
This silly article does not suggest that it is binding on Catholics and myself I find it quite an extraordinary leap of belief to even suggest a ridiculous method of Creation.
An insult to God!
 
This silly article does not suggest that it is binding on Catholics
Indeed not. It is an article by an evolutionary biologist and they don’t typically set Church doctrine. I have no reason to doubt his speculation (it is more or less what I have believed for as long as I remember), but folks who are opposed to the idea of evolution have no reason to worry - the Church doesn’t have an official position on evolution, AFAIK.
 
I think we should remember St Augustine’s principles in interpreting Scripture–remember, he rejected the faith because of the stories of Creation in six literal days, the Flood as worldwide event, etc…until St Ambrose set him on the correct path.

Per my memory…

“1. Hold to the inerrerant truth of Scripture”

“2. Do not hold to a particular interpretation of Scripture if doing so opens it up to ridicule by the unbelievers”
 
I think we should remember St Augustine’s principles in interpreting Scripture–remember, he rejected the faith because of the stories of Creation in six literal days, the Flood as worldwide event, etc…until St Ambrose set him on the correct path.

Per my memory…

“1. Hold to the inerrerant truth of Scripture”

“2. Do not hold to a particular interpretation of Scripture if doing so opens it up to ridicule by the unbelievers”
I read the Confessions of St. Augustine years ago, then found it on audio-book last year. I listened to it during Lent, for the 2nd time.

Ambrose explained to Augustine, the allegorical interpretation of the book of Genesis, which opened Augustine’s mind and heart to Scripture.

Jim
 
I believe that evolution happened, and I believe that God is the author of all. My husband found a passage in Genesis that referred to God building up the clay like a potter at a wheel… I don’t know the exact verse and will go find it. He saw in that a possible Biblical reference to evolution. Of course, the human writers of Genesis wouldn’t have known about evolution, but the inspiration that God provided them could have caused them to write words whose meaning would be clarified and amplified by growing human knowledge over time.
 
From the article…
The emergence of the human is neither a casual or accidental event, nor is it something that was “strictly necessary,” demanded by God or the evolutionary process, it said.
Evolution could have ended at the pre-human stage, it said, but thanks to “the free choice of God,” humans emerged from their pre-human ancestors.
This divine intervention “does not represent an unwarranted intrusion (of theology) in the field of science – as is the case with intelligent design – but is called for in order to explain the presence of man’s spirit” which cannot come from or evolve out of the material world, the article said.
The movement from being a creature of the animal and physical world to also the spiritual was a gift from God “even if it came at the end of a natural process of evolution,” it said.
Has anybody read anything further about this? Is the theory more developed? IOW…is the idea that God created Adam and Eve as first humans - by breathing the “breath of life” into Adam and creating Eve? Was Cain’s wife (never named) in the land of Nod a “pre-human,” or did God give a human spirit to many? Or, is the whole Adam and Eve narrative to be taken allegorically?
 
God changed the conditions on earth so that the prehominids would die out, and as they did so, He took the last one, altered his DNA supernaturally, breathed into him, making him wise (homo sapiens sapiens), and physically and spiritually immortal, and making him asexual, so that he was equally male and female and didn’t need a mate. Then God turned the Fertile Crescent, where the first human was, into an earthly paradise and surrounded it with natural barriers to protect it. After the person, Earthling, Red Clay, Human, Mud-man, as his name could variously be translated, slowly became aware there were no other hominids left, and that even if there had been they weren’t his kind, he was lonely and God took pity and put him into a trance. Mud-man slept deeply for a long time. God separated each of Mud-man’s organs in half like a cell dividing. He separated the rib over the heart last of all, the heart next to last, sealed the skin and let both sleep until they recovered. God called them both Adam. But they had the right to invent words. They spent a long period developing a simple proto-Hamito-Semitic language, learning to farm and make improved tools. At the Fall, the DNA of all living things was corrupted and humans became mortal, but had the capacity to foresee part sof their descenants’ lives and to remember their ancestors’ thoughts and experiences. This ability was there to help us learn from experience more efficiently, a mercy so we wouldn’t die out in the harsh new conditions. It gradually but never completely faded. That’s how I see it. Is any of that disallowed?
 
God changed the conditions on earth so that the prehominids would die out, and as they did so, He took the last one, altered his DNA supernaturally, breathed into him, making him wise (homo sapiens sapiens), and physically and spiritually immortal, and making him asexual, so that he was equally male and female and didn’t need a mate…
O-k-a-a-y :confused:
 
That article says God allowd pre-humans to be made into people.

The implications are not so obvious to you and are bleak because of this article: catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802496.htm. The upshot of this article: Vatican: It’s OK for Catholics to Believe in Aliens.

The implication of both articles: Aliens genetically engineered pre-humans into people.

That’s the bottom line, if you know how to read between the lines.
 
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