This is the year of Our Lord 2008.

There is nothing "obvious" about what nominal Catholics can be expected to believe.

One of the most influential Catholic Religious Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, Teilhard de Chardin, obviously did not even believe in God the Father Almighty or in Jesus Christ, His Son, Our Lord.

As to being satisfied, we ought not to be satisfied with the absurdities that Men of [Natural] Science utter on the subject of Evolution. Those are the absurdities that we should be worried about. All this ID hysteria is a lot of Chicken Little play-acting.

And we ought not to be satisfied that God is excluded from the Modern Classroom by Godless Men of Science.

The most important thing to remember is that the really important thing in life is to know Christ Jesus and to believe the True Roman Faith and comply with Grace so as to gain salvation.

Modern Academe is basically a means of Godless brainwashing and ritualized corruption of minds. I am automatically sympathetic to anything coming from the side of believers that destabilizes the Beastly soul-murderers who run Our Schools.

If I wince because a well-meaning Bible Thumper introduces a quote from the Epistle to the Galatians into a discussion of molecular biology directed at "Men of Science", I have not conceded anything to the latter miscreants.

Learned Jesuits and Dominicans did not make such mistakes when they were fighting Evolutionism seventy, eighty years ago and properly trained Catholics don't make them now.

What properly trained Catholics and maybe some less of the hopelessly fideistic Bible Thumpers could work out is a system of objection to the most egregiously anti-God and fantastical aspects of Evolutionary theory as it is actually taught to schoolchildren.

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EXPELLED....

Can't argue with facts, folks. That about sums things up. Not just I.D. theory. God is EXPELLED too. Reason is EXPELLED. Decency is EXPELLED. Truth is EXPELLED. Honesty is EXPELLED.

So what can we really do about the injustice of it all?

What, realistically speaking, is the little bit of cyanide that we can sprinkle on Teacher's apple, Teacher being the Prince of Darkness and the Father of Lies?

A purely negative approach to their theory as opposed to the  offering of a alternative might be harder for the Evolutionist fanatics to fight. Just keep saying, "But what about?... No, because you just said...Uh-uh... Nope... Sorry, but no way... Oh, really? I don't think so... Apparently you forgot about... You don't want the Bible in the Science Classroom, wiseguy? Then stop MOCKING the Bible in the Science Classroom or I'll write about your blasphemies in the paper of this small mostly Baptist community and have your job on a stick..."

It's important to take a firm and unyielding hand with these people and to put the fear of God in them. That's what struck me as I read the court docuмent linked above. I have followed this method in my time and had good results. Your manner should be cool and dry.

Of course, children shouldn't be exposed to them in the first place. I think that that's an important point to make, since we're discussing a movie called EXPELLED. On the other hand, concerned citizens certainly should care about what goes on in the dens of iniquity called schools and do what they can...

I'd like to post a few citations from learned Catholic priests writing about Evolution in the 1920s and 1930s. I would like to see younger Catholics who perhaps in an understandable straw-clutching mindset have become dangerously familiar with the Bible Thumper world become more and more familiar with the treasures of wisdom produced by REAL Christian faith and a truly perfect society.

As for a modern clerical scholar who put forth some unorthodox ideas on these matters, an old professor from my alma mater by the name of Fr. Zahm comes to mind.

I shall explain myself in greater detail when I have the time - which I do not at present.  God speed, my friend.

But the tale of PILTDOWN Man is the ultimate example of one of Modern Science's hoaxes. And that tale even has a whodunit Murder Mystery attached! With Peking Man it's more a question of junky science than of hoax.

The Modern Man of Science is not only a Godless liar. He is also an insufferably self-righteous prig. He waves bones in the air as though they were Caesar's bloody shroud and dogmatizes about them at the expense of the the Lord God of Israel and His faithful ones. Then, when he has to admit that he was wrong on this point or that, he perversely turns the fact of his own insolent and fanatical dogmatism against his critics and says, "If you knew anything about Science, you would know that this is how Science is done: you boldly make hypotheses on the basis of available data and wait for it all to pan out as further advances in knowledge are made."

Yes, that certainly IS the peer review process as it relates to the questions with which we are dealing.

And that's why it's not a question of the Modern Man of Science's ever learning anything about true Science and about himself and about the hypocrisy of his contempt for "uncritical and scientifically illiterate God-people" but rather about his plotting his next hoax, his next absurdity, or his next lie, even as he is dragged kicking and screaming to an admission about his latest hoax, absurdity, or lie.

Gladius already mentioned the specifics of Peking Man and Haeckel and indicated that when he has the time he will pursue these matters further in these pages.

We must be patient.

I don't know about being aligned with anyone else. Maybe the alignment in this case with someone else is a function of being commonly aligned with proper notions of Catholic orthodoxy.

I'm a Specifics Man myself. That's why, among a few others, I gave the specific of the corruption of the papyrology and archaeology worlds by the Godless fanaticism of the Modern Man of Science against Sacred Scripture. This was a personal disaster for me. What I really wanted to be when I was young was a papyrologist. Now look at me. I suppose that I could have been braver and seen how long I could have lasted before I was brought up on charges in the Court of Modern Science of having demurred too heatedly when a Peer hypothesized that all apparently ancient Biblical texts were forged at the Moody Bible Institute in 1892...

I don't see how the world of "concepts" is any more malleable than the world of "specifics." Look how Godless and dirty-minded Evolutionists are always teaching schoolchildren that Evolutionary Science has established that women who have married older men are biologically programmed to commit adultery with younger men and that's all there is to it.

Why not consider BOTH specifics and concepts? That's a big problem in our time where people either hinge on more to the abstract universal ideas or get too involved in particulars. I suppose it is the bouncing back and forth between reason and the senses, or between Plato and Aristotle. Many have gotten so involved in details that they neglect what is fixed and universal.
So it follows then that evolution as a philosophy and an explanation like macroevolution would make sense for many if they already have assumptions not based on fixed and universal principles.