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Aloysium
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What we are obliged to do is to inform ourselves of the Church’s interpretations, as outlined in the Catechism, which seeks to make eternal truths, written in accordance with the worldviews of their time, relevant in the modern world. It does allow us to believe whatever we want in terms of science as long as it doesn’t preclude the truth.
I’m not bothered by people thinking they are descended from “monkeys” any more than if they were to believe in Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster or Leprechauns. At issue is the stated mechanism of evolution, which among other distortions, implies the primacy of the material, the diminution of mankind to animal status, thusly suggesting that we can do what we will and neglect the basic reality of the cosmos - Love, and the placing of what is utilitarian (aka survival) above everything that in nature points to the glory and beauty that is God. There are consequnces to this attitude in our behaviour. Quite a lot of the evil we find in the world today is justified by the belief that we are animals, brought forth by the powers of the earth.
If one who believes otherwise were to treat “creationists” as less of a foil in intellectual combat, and consider what they as individuals write, one will observe what is quite a diversity of opinions and interpretations.
My point of contention with evolutionary theories is that they are bad science, if they are science at all and not merely the secular mythos of our times. I must say that it is science, as it has been practiced or at least presented through the media and taught in schools, that forces us into a single interpretation. The sketchy evidence we have, has been forced into false coherence by unverifiable assumptions and thereby distorted into the story of evolution. Any evidence outside that framework is either eliminate because of its nonadherence to the “fact” of evolution, or distorted to fit that picture.
