Ridiculous!
The theory of evolution makes perfect sense, however, when one considers its founder, an agnostic. If you don't believe in God, you'll fall for anything. I don't have time to go into it here, but Darwin was dishonest. Much of his hypothesis on natural selection was based on work by Patrick Matthews. (Source) He even plagiarized terms coined by Matthews.
Evolution gives sinners an out. How can we not follow our animal instincts when we literally came from animals? We're just doings what comes naturally. And sadly, in today's unbelieving and barbaric world that man is a beast returning to his original state. As believing Catholics, however, we know we were created in the image and likeness of God Who loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. He calls us to return that love and become more and more the mirror of our Creator.
EVOLUTION VS. EVOCATION by Fr. Tom Collins
The core problem with the evolution paradigm, however, is that it is intrinsically impersonal - leaving open the possibility of asserting that might makes right. Thus we have had many deceived into seeking to be on the right side of history (e.g., those supporting Hitler and Tojo in late 1941), rather than on the right side of Christ.
Ultimately, the premises of evolution assert that there is no accountability to objective truth or to sacred and solemn commitments, but only the "right" to self-fulfillment by imposing oneself and one's agenda on others on one's own terms. This tragic fact is evidenced in the large number of couples, that eschew the sacred covenantal vows of holy marriage in favor of "maintaining their freedom" by merely cohabitating with each other. And, sadly, the general acquiescence to its consequences is manifested in the widespread failure to include prayers for vocations to Holy Matrimony in the General Intercessions at Mass.
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In direct opposition to this, the authentic teaching of the Church embraces the premise of evocation. Evocation asserts that any authentically human development must be an obedient response to God's call to a more profound communion with His mercy, love, truth, reverence and generosity. Evocation requires that we renounce a dominating control over others in order to be drawn by the Holy Spirit into a loving communion with them. Evocation calls one to transcend mere responsibility to one's agenda into a sobering accountability to another and to the sanctifying demands of God's love, justice and truth.Ultimately, unlike evolution, evocation asserts that we can only find true fulfillment by being embraced, through our sharing in the cross of Christ, into a more regenerative and sanctifying communion with God and with others in the Mystical Body of Christ.
But if members of the Church allow themselves to be seduced into embracing the impersonal and alienating paradigm and premises of evolution, human relations will continue to degenerate as people continue to uncritically prioritize power over love, gratification over sanctification and domination over sacred amd sanctifying communion.
As Pope Leo is pointing out, it is only by faithfully responding to Christ's call to take up our cross and follow Him in a spirit of humility, docility, repentance, reconciliation and peace that we can find true peace and have and share His life to the full. There can be no salvation, regeneration or fulfillment in any other way.
In Christ,
Fr. Thomas Collins
Hot Springs VA
How profound! And I would add that because speciation occurs at the moment of conception, we can know through both Faith and reason, it is not possible for a man and woman to conceive a son or daughter, who is not, in essence a human person, thus every son or daughter of a human person, being wholly human, can only be, in essence, a human person.
ReplyDeletePrayers that Pope Leo IV, for The Salvation Of Souls, will charitably anathema the counterfeit church with its counterfeit magisterium that for sometime now has been attempting to subsist within The One Body Of Christ, while denying that God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, Is The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, and refusing to affirm the Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament Of Holy Matrimony, and The Sanctity of all human sons and daughters from the moment of conception, and thus affirm the Sanctity and Dignity of the human person from conception until natural death.
Christ Himself Instituted The Charitable Anathema:
“You cannot be My Disciples, if you do not abide in My Word.”- Jesus The Christ
It's worse than mere agnosticism. It's a deliberate return to barbarism and worship of power instead of worship of morality. It is the same as the Germanic (and other Indo-European groups) ancestors' deliberate daevic rebellion against the good religion of Ahura Mazda (which had them lose the great religious war and flee to what is now Europe); whereas the religion of Zoroastrianism posited an ultimate creator and moral authority that made the entire world and prescribed for human beings to live good and moral lives in submission to supernatural entities considered good - yazatas, chief of which was Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrianism as a faith is almost gone, but it's concepts of objective truth, morality and godly authority are something that Christianity also has, which is why the daevic barbarians might have such a reflexive reaction towards.
ReplyDeleteThe daevic pagan religion, instead, has always embraced power over morality. Angra Mainyu/Odin/Shiva - the destructive principle of evil - and Indra-daeva/Zeus/Thor - the constructed deity of thunder - have accrued increased cosmological importance in the daevic religion (becoming chief deities in expense of Ahura Mazda), shifting the primary characteristics of godhood from goodness to power in the process. That's why Greek mythology (a variant of that daevic religion) has the "gods" to be little more than immature brats that kill many people in their temper tantrums. "Evolution" is nothing more than a descendant of that daevic philosophical current (Darwin's grandfather was pagan); it as a concept presumes that man is able to change his nature and assume a higher form... Become a god, as the Greeks and Romans told in their stories and customs. The daevic religion is a present danger. It, in it's time, has spawned horrors like the Norse berserkers and the overall trope of "Eastern horde barbarism", as well as having a role in the development of such horrors as Marxism (Marx went through the same process as the daevic pagans and even wrote poetry extolling the principle of evil as something liberating - and created an ideology which commanded that those who wanted to seize other people and their property had an implicit historic/divine right to do so) and Nazism (because the Hindu branch of the daevic religion - preserved by Brahmins that ran from Afghanistan from the Zoroastrian forces - was something that the West was very interested in. A situation that might as well be described as the dog returning to the vomit of a sibling dog...).
The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation
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https://kolbecenter.org/
Hmmm. But what about identical twins, who split up to two weeks after conception? Or the clear dna sequencing that shows our commonality with apes? I am open to the wonder of humans being invested with souls and yet still can see the path from the planet’s development.
ReplyDeleteYes I think ensoulment is key and something that biology cannot address. Neither can biology really prove evolution one way or another, the concept being non falsifiable.
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