What is essential to remember here is that the doctrine and dogma of Christ’s Church is clear, and any assumption that mankind was subject to death, i.e. before Adam, is erroneous.
rtforum.org/lt/lt37.html concerning Genesis 1 and evolutionism:
“The Council of Orange adopted a canon which refers specifically to ‘bodily death which is the punishment of sin’; ….The Council of Trent reaffirmed these earlier teachings in different words (‘Adam … by his sin … drew upon himself the … death with which God had threatened him’);
……Trent’s Canon 2 declares: ‘If anyone asserts that Adam’s sin … transmitted to all mankind only death and the suffering of the body but not sin as well which is the death of the soul, anathema sit. For he contradicts the words of the Apostle: ‘Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men as all sinned in him’" (Rom. 5:12 Vulg; see Council of Orange II, Canon 2).
“…in his
Creed of the People of God, Pope Paul VI spoke about ‘our first parents … (who) knew neither sin nor death.’
“Not only has the alleged transformation of species never been observed according to the standards of natural science, so that the “scientific” picture of evolution remains a pure historical conjecture that has never been substantiated, but even the reliability of the testimony regarding what has been observed is open to question. I am referring especially to the long history of downright dishonesty on the part of many “scientists” relating their findings amidst lies, distortions, unobjective selection of data, suppression of data that do not fit in with the desired results, and a pronounced overall bias in the way the investigations were first drawn up and afterwards reported. We are dealing here, on the historical level, not so much with a scientific process as with the unfolding of an emotional need, of a group obsession that has for well over a century captivated the minds of spiritually undisciplined persons.1”
“It seems that some kind of development from lower to higher forms of life is implicit in the text, but the Darwinian explanation, with its absence of finality, its spontaneous generation, and its random selection is excluded, both by Genesis and by biological science. To exclude divine Providence from the development means to exclude rational science itself.”
- Numerous exposes have been published of the dishonesty shown by many of those reporting evolutionary data and discoveries. See, for example, J.W.G. Johnson, The Crumbling Theory of Evolution (3rd printing, 1987: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Incorporated, P.O. Box 84595, Los Angeles, California 90073). See also Malcolm Bowden, Science vs Evolution (1st edition, 1991: Sovereign Publications, P.O. Box 88, Bromley, Kent BR2 9PF, England).
There are at least 72 *trace *elements present and not as toxins, they are used. More trace elements and their functions are still being found. In all there are only 92 naturally occuring elements and all elements are required for plant and animal life processes and besides it is obvious that a human in an empty vacuum will not survive long enough to use his intelligence in any significant way without the basics for life.