I am guessing this question is only a matter of concern for the young earth believers that read the bible only literally. But, is not a thing a catholic must believe.S-Jam,
Well, how about that…your “thoughts” had an answer. There are no coincidences. Glad to be of help. Keep up those “thoughts” of yours
Precisely. A Catholic is free to believe that Earth is old or young. The Church in her wisdom recognizes this as a question for science. Unfortunately, there are far too many Catholics who don’t understand the Church’s teaching on this, or any scientific topic for that matter.
Thank you Geoformeo,
Often readers including myself do not always pay attention to the links placed here by others to help make their point. But this time I went to the link to the diocese advertisement and hit the You-tube presentation on “Do Catholics worship saints?” There I got a good explanation by a local priest: Saints are roll models, Mary expecially knew Jesus; they are all good people who can pray for us when we ask them to do so as they are now very close to Jesus who we do worship as one of the three persons in God; Catholicism is a practical religion.
It’s reassuring as that is what my wife and I do every day like praying to St. Anthony to help find lost or misplaced items; our guardian angel and travel prayer and so on; they are now very close to Jesus where we all want to be some day. Believe me they are a big help as I suspect many of you have learned. For example both my wife and I fell together trying to negotiate a sidewalk curb with her walker at night last November; neither of us were hurt. The person who picked us up came out of nowhere whom I believe was a guardian angel who also must have broke my very hard fall and picked us both up then quickly left the scene. We had just said the St. Michael travel prayer and guardian angel prayer just 10 minutes before we arrived for this school play. Two witnesses verified the presence of this “stranger” one of whom was an elderly man with a cane as his daughter who saw us fall said, “Let’s try and help them dad” only to remark a few seconds later to the complete stranger, “Oh, You’re not my dad!”Do you have evidence to support this opinion? just curious what caused you to take such a a firm stance against this.
There is far more scientific evidence, not to mention scripture and Jesus’s own words and that of the early church fathers for a World-wide flood here on earth the there is for a flood on Mars which NASA is now suggesting. Isn’t it a bit obvious? Or do you think I have to explain the obvious to Strawberry Jam?
Please, feel free to explain the obvious to me.There is far more scientific evidence, not to mention scripture and Jesus’s own words and that of the early church fathers for a World-wide flood here on earth the there is for a flood on Mars which NASA is now suggesting. Isn’t it a bit obvious? Or do you think I have to explain the obvious to Strawberry Jam?
Actually, Philipp, I am quite interested in your supposed “far more scientific evidence” for a global flood, because there is none. And can you specifically cite Jesus’ own words regarding the Flood and the ECFs? Apparently I, too, am in need of the obvious explained to me. By the way, Luke 17:26-27 is not a reference to a global flood. It is a reference to those who surrounded Noah at the time.There is far more scientific evidence, not to mention scripture and Jesus’s own words and that of the early church fathers for a World-wide flood here on earth the there is for a flood on Mars which NASA is now suggesting. Isn’t it a bit obvious? Or do you think I have to explain the obvious to Strawberry Jam?
Jonny,
Just saw “Sue” the dinosaur in Chicago. Simply a magnificent creature.
LOL! Thanks!
If you ever believe, it’s yours for the borrowing! 
BUT Thistle suggest that Truth Seeker and scripture are wrong. He (she} says that man and dinosaur did NOT exist at the same time. So who’s right? Well let’s see what modern research science has to say
In a recent book published and released on November 6, 2009 by the National Research Council of Italy entitled, “Evolutionism: The Decline of an Hypothesis” there is a report by a number of scientists that dinosaurs and man have indeed coexisted based on C-14 dating of dinosaur femur bone collagen from Montana. They repeated the testing on dinosaur bioapatite and obtained concordant C-14 ages all in the range of 23,000 to 30,000 C-14 years. Thus those alleged 65,000,000 to 225 million years since dinosaurs supposedly became extinct perhaps only exist in the minds of some men.
There are even fossil dinosaur and human footprints together, discovered in a river bottom and pristine ones under tons of rocks and just recently confirmed by cat-scan of the Delk footprint.
Did anyone visit the links in the above? Therre is a lot of useful scientific discoveries which contradict the current paradigm or hypothesis of origins, evolution of life from non-life or bacterium billions of year ago including the FACT that dinosaurs are over 2000 times younger than what evolutionists claim? That time falls into what Catholics could consider as the period of creation ex-nihilo by God.
As for the obvious evidence for a possible flood of Noah it is well known by everyone that about 80 % of the earth is covered by water up to even 5 miles in depth in some ocean trenches; BUT Mars has NO water; right (?) yet NASA’s geologic studies of Mars suggest water once existed there. Furthermore the earth has 1000’s of feet of deep sedimentary rock strata with huge graveyards of all sorts of fossil animals and sea life forms. Plus there are 150 or so known asteroids impactions in those sedimentary rocks as on Mars and of course our moon. Thus since dinosaurs coexisted with man why couldn’t there have been a mighty global flood on earth as there might have been on Mars? All cultures world-wide have references to this flood but they do not appear as accurate as the Old and New testament.
As one of my favorite Public TV hero’s said many times on the 1/2 hour serials than ran for many years - It’s elementary Watson!
Oh boy, here we go. First, C-14 dating has an upper limit of around 50,000 years. Trying to date anything older than that by this method will give erroneous results because it’s half life is so short (5730 years) that it will be practically undetectable. Any “results” noted using C-14 on things millions of years old are due to contamination (air, skin, etc.). Second, how could they have used this test with the mineral apatite, which is calcium phosphate (Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl)), and contains no carbon? Third, just curious, what age dates did they get when they dated the bone using U-238 or K-40?In a recent book published and released on November 6, 2009 by the National Research Council of Italy entitled, “Evolutionism: The Decline of an Hypothesis” there is a report by a number of scientists that dinosaurs and man have indeed coexisted based on C-14 dating of dinosaur femur bone collagen from Montana. They repeated the testing on dinosaur bioapatite and obtained concordant C-14 ages all in the range of 23,000 to 30,000 C-14 years. Thus those alleged 65,000,000 to 225 million years since dinosaurs supposedly became extinct perhaps only exist in the minds of some men.
So let me get this straight…they found dinosaur and human footprints together at the BOTTOM OF A RIVER? Don’t you think that there just might have been some erosion taking place by the running water? How in the world would the “footprints” stay preserved? And has a single human bone ever been found in association with dinosaur bones? No. Don’t you think that if the entire population of humans but Noah and his family were destroyed in the flood, alongside all species of dinosaur, that their bones would be found TOGETHER in sedimentary deposits?There are even fossil dinosaur and human footprints together, discovered in a river bottom and pristine ones under tons of rocks and just recently confirmed by cat-scan of the Delk footprint.
I hate to be so nitpicky, but the Earth is 70% covered with water. Mars DOES have water, albeit as ice in its ice caps. There is also the possibility that there is liquid water in its subsurface. Yes, Mars had water. But what makes you think that it was a “flood?” It would have been an ocean just like ours, or rivers just like ours. But the fact of the matter is that most of Mars was devoid of water, evidenced by the amount of basalt containing the mineral olivine present on Mars. I really don’t know what bearing Mars has on this discussion anyway.
Changing my sig line when I can find the right way to say what I am feeling right now.S-Jam,
I’m here to do His will!