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Faith1960
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Tonight on the news they said the moon formed after a violent head on collision between earth and a planetary embryo, the moon forming 100 million years after the earth was formed. Does that contradict our faith ?
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ivebeenshown
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The Catholic faith makes no particular binding statements about the age of the earth. We are allowed to interpret Genesis literally or symbolically.Tonight on the news they said the moon formed after a violent head on collision between earth and a planetary embryo, the moon forming 100 million years after the earth was formed. Does that contradict our faith ?
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Confiteor_Deo
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No, it doesn’t contradict the Faith. We are allowed to believe either that creation was created in 6 days or in the big bang theory (except with God creating it and guiding the formation of the universe and the evolution of life).
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1neophyte
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Our faith is not in the moon.
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phil19034
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NopeTonight on the news they said the moon formed after a violent head on collision between earth and a planetary embryo, the moon forming 100 million years after the earth was formed. Does that contradict our faith ?
The Church does not teach that creation happened in 7 earth days. It happens in 7 “God Days” but not in 168 earth hours
(Though people are free to believe that)
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WKW_69
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Did you know that 1 day (rotation) in our galaxy is 220 Million Earth Years?Tonight on the news they said the moon formed after a violent head on collision between earth and a planetary embryo, the moon forming 100 million years after the earth was formed. Does that contradict our faith ?
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GEddie
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As with our biological bodies, the origin of the physical universe is not expected to confirm to scriptural literality.
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Tantum_ergo
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“They said”. . . well as others remarked, it does not contradict our Faith at all if it did happen that way. . .and second, perhaps I am just cynical but you know, nobody was actually AROUND just then and recording what happened. Theories are not certainties.
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Faith1960
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Thanks everyone!
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Faith1960
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What did you mean “they said?”“They said”. . . well as others remarked, it does not contradict our Faith at all if it did happen that way. . .and second, perhaps I am just cynical but you know, nobody was actually AROUND just then and recording what happened. Theories are not certainties.
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TaurusRex
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Our Bible is full of words of wisdom, but thankfully we Catholics are allowed to believe in science and technology also …Tonight on the news they said the moon formed after a violent head on collision between earth and a planetary embryo, the moon forming 100 million years after the earth was formed. Does that contradict our faith ?
No way could I get along on faith alone while knowing truth and trying to do right.
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