Does anyone here get their dose of Aleteia, a Catholic website? Well lately they are on to Faith and Science.
Here is the Latest:
Is Genesis a scientific textbook about how God made the world?
The key is to understand the purpose of the book of Genesis and the style of literature it was originally written in.
A love poem from God
The Catholic Church and most biblical scholars agree that the book of Genesis in particular was written as a "poetic" narrative of creation.
God was not interested in providing for us a scientific textbook, revealing to us all of the mechanical ways of his creative power. Instead, he wrote us a love poem.
Can poems speak truth? Yes, they can. Does it diminish the truth spoken in Genesis? No, not at all.
God wanted to show us his love for us and how we fit into his divine plan in Genesis. He didn't want us to get caught-up into all the mechanics of how he created the world. So he gave us a poem.
All science can tell us is how the world was created. The Bible tells us why the world was created.
The good news is that science and faith can live together and that science can help us get an idea of how the world around us developed over time.
We just need to remember that it was God who created the world. and when we read the book of Genesis we are brought into the mystery of God's love.
Science and the Bible can be both true, though they may use different words to explain the same event that happened in the past
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First let us see what St Thomas said:
‘That the world began to exist is an object of faith, but not of demonstration or science. And it is useful to consider this, lest anyone, presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, should bring forward reasons that are not cogent, so as to give occasion to unbelievers to laugh, thinking that on such grounds we believe things that are of faith.’--- St. Thomas Aquinas, (Summa theolagiae I.46.2)
Now what has the Church dogmatised?
‘God…creator of all visible and invisible things, of the spiritual and of the corporal; who by His own omnipotent power at once from the beginning of time created each creature from nothing, spiritual and corporal, namely, angelic and mundane, and finally the human, both of the spirit and the body.’ (Lateran Council IV, 1215)
‘All that exists outside God was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by God. (De fide.) (Vatican Council I, 1870)
They say Genesis is not a science book. No its is not, it tells us God created all by his will alone in 6 days, finished. But today's Churchmen and the likes of ALETEIA WEBSITE eliminate the SUPERNATUAL and apply a SCIENTIFIC GENESIS story like a BIG Bang. So now churchmen and ATHEISTS share the same story of origins.
And that is how false science has caused millions of souls to eliminate a CREATOR.
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