If all the scientists believed in creationism, then I would indeed believe in creationists. Just like if all scientists repeatedly and unanimously said that a certain chemical causes cancer, I would believe them. Just like I believe in the theory of relativity, even though I was not personally on the airplane that observed time discrepancy. It’s not because I’m afraid of being mocked, but because they have studied certain things for years.
I don’t have any reason to doubt them on things that they have learned. BECAUSE IT DOES NOT GO AGAINST CHURCH DOCTRINE.
No, fossil records really don’t disprove evolution. I could talk about the many, many transition species that have been discovered, but I really don’t think that you are open to changing your mind.
In fact, I am truly beginning to think that this whole discussion is pointless, as
- We will never agree
- THE CHURCH DOES NOT OPPOSE EITHER EVOLUTION OR CREATIONISM
This conversation is moot. Either belief is acceptable by the Church, regardless of your opposition to evolution.
This is the last post of yours that I have read, or will reply to. I am going to sleep now.
Thank you and good night.
Oh, and P.S., Saint Augustine said something quite interesting. I think you should read it. It’s rather long, and rather harsher than I mean it, but still illuminating:
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience.
Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?
Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."