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evolution and Naturalism

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

I thought this statement is interesting:

The scientific theory of evolution is untenable with the dogmatic level of truth of the Catholic Church. Here’s why.

The scientific theory of evolution is Naturalism in its origin. Naturalism seeks to rid the existence of the supernatural from the beginning of the world. Everything about the world is explainable through observation. Can you observe the supernatural? Perhaps, from ghostly haunting and demonic influence, etc. The scientific theory of evolution destroys the supernatural origin of God’s work in Creation, from the Universe, to the Angels, to Adam, and then to Eve. For the neo-Catholics, the very least is the destruction of Creation of the world as written in Genesis. Neo-Catholics are forced to admit the supernatural Incarnation of God, based on the reasonableness of the religious conviction. In another words, it is only an intellectual assent, nothing of the supernatural. That’s why these people will go to Hell. They have no justification in them because they follow their intellect and reason (with human pride), rather than the grace of God. The neo-Catholics are forced to admit that the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was an invention. If Adam and Eve were produced (being siblings of brute beasts), so were Jesus and Mary. OK, so these heretics would say that Adam and Eve were born of and from corrupt flesh and animal/human nature, being given souls at the moment of their conception, as were Jesus and Mary, being made holy like Adam and Eve, as a result of human generation.

The very idea of evolution by natural selection, whereby God intervenes to give them justification, is ridiculous and preposterous. The very idea is this, that these brute beasts mated from animal nature and instinct, and from which death was brought about through thousands if not millions of generations until the body of Adam (and Eve) was constituted as a result of natural selection. This idea is the deification of Naturalism in its purest religious form. These heretics take human sciences to the level of revelation and doctrine, like the Catholic Faith. That is how a person knows these heretics are Catholic by social influence, and nothing holy and spiritual in origin. They don’t accept truth on the authority of God revealing, rather they give their assent to those known and knowable truth by human investigation.

The theory of evolution is allowed by the Church as a scientific explanation and theory, just as Heliocentricism is. Pope Pius XII goes to so far as to permit the investigation of the body of man from pre-existing matter, (from the slime of the earth) which is the case of Adam according to divine source of revelation. It can NEVER be advanced against or in opposition, or in favor of new theological and doctrinal views, of the Catholic Faith. Anyone who presumes to put scientific view on par with the Catholic Faith is not worthy to be called Catholic and cannot be considered to have the supernatural truth, which cannot be apprehended in totality by the human mind or intellect.

If anyone says, teaches, or believes otherwise, contrary to this notification, should be anathematized by all true Catholics.

12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. 13 For until the law sin was in the world; but sin was not imputed, when the law was not. 14 But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died; much more the grace of God, and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. (Romans 5)

Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

HUMANI GENERIS, an excerpt

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Humani Generis, Pius XII, August 12, 1950

30… Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.

35. It remains for Us now to speak about those questions which, although they pertain to the positive sciences, are nevertheless more or less connected with the truths of the Christian faith. In fact, not a few insistently demand that the Catholic religion takes these sciences into account as much as possible. This certainly would be praiseworthy in the case of clearly proved facts; but caution must be used when there is rather question of hypotheses, having some sort of scientific foundation, in which the doctrine contained in Sacred Scripture or in Tradition is involved. If such conjectural opinions are directly or indirectly opposed to the doctrine revealed by God, then the demand that they be recognized can in no way be admitted.

36. For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter — for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God. However this must be done in such a way that the reasons for both opinions, that is, those favorable and those unfavorable to evolution, be weighed and judged with the necessary seriousness, moderation and measure, and provided that all are prepared to submit to the judgment of the Church, to whom Christ has given the mission of interpreting authentically the Sacred Scriptures and of defending the dogmas of faithful. Some however rashly transgress this liberty of discussion, when they act as if the origin of the human body from preexisting and living matter were already completely certain and proved by the facts which have been discovered up to now and by reasoning on those facts, and as if there were nothing in the sources of divine revelation which demands the greatest moderation and caution in this question.

37. When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which through generation is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own