How do I fight Darwinism?

[dloved]

Can you lead me to books that are Catholic-based or Christian-based about dinosaurs and the flood, etc.? I am a youth leader for teens fighting the Darwin theory and trying to collaborate true science facts with biblical facts.

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

Perhaps before giving you the resources you asked for, I should mention that Catholics can accept the idea of theistic evolution. The Church places very few parameters around the debate of the origins of man (e.g., God ultimately is the creator of everything, he created ex nihilo, man’s soul is spiritual and the special creation of God). For the most part though, the Church leaves questions of natural origins to science. As St. Augustine said:

With the scriptures it is a matter of treating about the faith. For that reason, as I have noted repeatedly, if anyone, not understanding the mode of divine eloquence, should find something about these matters [about the physical universe] in our books, or hear of the same from those books, of such a kind that it seems to be at variance with the perceptions of his own rational faculties, let him believe that these other things are in no way necessary to the admonitions or accounts or predictions of the scriptures. In short, it must be said that our authors knew the truth about the nature of the skies, but it was not the intention of the Spirit of God, who spoke through them, to teach men anything that would not be of use to them for their salvation (The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 2:9, source).

I have included in the resources recommended below a couple of books on the origins debate. They should be read with care because neither are by Catholics and so may not fully conform to a Catholic understanding of Christianity. But they are helpful to better understanding the history of the origins debate and the current issues at stake.

Recommended reading:

Articles:

• [Adam, Eve, and Evolution (http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp)
• [Creation and Genesis (http://www.catholic.com/library/Creation_and_Genesis.asp)
• [Creation Out of Nothing (http://www.catholic.com/library/Creation_Out_of_Nothing.asp)
• [How do I homeschool on creation and evolution? (http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=260150)
  Books:
• [Saving Darwin (http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Darwin-Christian-Believe-Evolution/dp/product-description/0061228788) by Karl W. Giberson
• The P.I.G. to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Jonathan Wells