Now, we Catholics don't believe in their "explanations", BUT ... here's an AI summary of what I've seen already from the scientists themselves, where I asked it if secular non-creationists scientists have come to believe in a massive worldwide water event that took place aboutu 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. So our great scientific mind, Fr. Paul Robinson, is way behind the times, since this water event is being recognized as WORLDWIDE. We see here a "kicking against the goad" where they're coming up with nonsense like "Meltwater Pulse", and sudden bursting of glacial ice dams, but explanation #3 gets closer, and it's due to the fact that these events were so sudden that even the non-creationists weren't buying the simultaneous meltwater pulse nonsense.
There is a small "rub" with everything you are saying. Believing that the Creation-period was longer than 6 24-days /=/ believing in "evolutionism".
That is the first point.
There is a common misunderstanding floating around (and this seems to have been promoted in part by the Kolbe Center) that "old-earth Creationism" is equivalent to "evolution".
They are not the same. In fact the Pontifical Biblical Commission of 1909 upheld that a Catholic was allowed to believe in a younger earth or an older earth, based on varying interpretations of the Hebrew word "yom".
If God did not create the sun until day 4, that alone is enough to give one pause as to the literal 24-hour day period.
I am not saying that the 24-hour day period is wrong. I am not saying that it is right. I am saying that there are QUESTIONS about for how long God created and that currently, the Church allows a person to have these questions in regards to how long it took God to create the world.
Evolution is anti-Christ and anti-God and the Kolbe Center has done great work debunking that part.
It's just that they have nearly-"dogmatized" the young earth position, when in fact, the Church has not done this.
There was just an excellent debate on this on LifeSite News featuring Dr. Ed Mazza and Hugh Owen. Dr. Mazza brings up good information on what the Church actually says.
I've got to run, but have more to say on this topic. Hopefully at a later time.
Okay: back: NEXT...
Secondly, St. Maximillian Kolbe HIMSELF believed in an old-earth. Stop and ponder that for a moment. The saint that the Kolbe Center chose for its patron (while he was clearly against so-called evolution) was NOT against the concept of an old earth.
The saint was against evolution.
So clearly St. Maximillian Kolbe himself did not believe that belief in an older-earth was equal to belief in so-called "evolutionism".
Why or how this gets overlooked by the Kolbe Center as they castigate anyone who does not believe in a young-earth is beyond me. But there it is.
Topic: Latest Kolbe Center re Fr. Robinson's The Realist Guide to Religion and Science (Read 3614 times)