This is part of an exchange between several people, dealing with evolution:
MikeO:
A Flood can't really be global and not "cover the Earth," then, if by Earth we mean the entire 24,000 mile circuмference of the planet.
So yes, pick your spot; deny the inerrancy of the Sacred Scriptures by holding to the Global Flood, which would be heresy, or admit the restrictive sense of "earth" and "life" in this case, which no pope since and including Venerable Pope Pius XII has any difficulty in reconciling with the Deposit of the Faith.
My reply:
This is as far as I could get to reading. Believing in the global Flood is a heresy?!!!!!! Then all the Fathers of the Church were heretics! This can never be!! Please read the quotations I have put!! This is intolerable; I can't believe you had the audacity to say that! You say that if I believe in the Fathers' interpretation, I am a heretic? Absolutely absurd! I'd dare say that you don't know the meaning of heresy if you actually believe this! I think I say this for your own good: do not interpret the Bible according to your tastes; say what you will, but don't denigrate the traditional understanding at the least, to call it a heresy; when you do so, you arrogate to yourself authority which you don't have and insult the Fathers of the Church, especially when they are agreed on such an issue as the Global Flood.
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I just had to post this, to show how much even traditional Catholics are deceived by modern science, even to the point of calling a traditional teaching a heresy!!