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Correct Ladislaus.

First let us see what the Catholic Church teaches:

‘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)

‘Substance,’ we know from classic philosophy, means ‘what something is’ and not what something can become or is becoming.

‘From nothing’ means God did not make things out of things that existed, as evolution would have you believe. God finished His Creation, the Earth and the sky, and all active in them, completed in their whole substance. Most of the Church Fathers held all these were done in a literal six-day Creation until Saint Augustine proposed that all was created complete immediately but presented in Genesis by way of six-days metaphor to emphasise each order of His Creation.

‘So then, although it is without any stretch of time being involved that God makes things, having ‘the power to act available to him whenever he will,’ (Wisdom of Solomon 12:18) all the same the time-bound natures made by him go through their temporal movements in time.’--- St Augustine, commentaries on Genesis.


In any case, both describe a perfect finished creation in no more than six days.    

Just so others know what Fr Paul Robinson, SSPX, is up to out there, teaching the following to their seminarians.

‘This position of the Flood as being geographically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?... In other words, the laws operating on the Earth today cannot be applied to the time of Noah… One of the motivations for Brown to postulate water coming from below [the Earth] is that the Bible describes the waters of the Flood as coming both from the ‘fountains of great deep’ and the ‘floodgates of Heaven’ (see Gen, 8:2) …. Clearly this is a popular, but not a scientific description.’--- Fr Paul Robinson. The Realist Guide to Religion and Science, Gracewing, 2018, pp. 274-275.

Wow, this is even worse than I thought.

In any case, Fr. Robinson dismisses the clear description that the waters of the flood covered the ENTIRE earth above the highest mountain tops.  Now, it's possible that the mountains weren't quite as high as they are now, since there was a huge amount of geological upheaval, most likely during the time of the great flood, that created mountains, but there's no ambiguity that Sacred Scripture quite clearly says that the ENTIRE earth was covered and to ABOVE the highest mountains.

Now in this quote he also dismisses the waters coming from the "fountains of the great deep" as popular rather than scientific.  What does that mean?  Just poetry?  What is this "popular" view of the fountains of the great deep, Father?  See, a Catholic (or even Prot) who believes in the inerrancy of the Sacred Scriptures would ask perhaps where these waters came from, how they were generated, etc. ... but never question that there were waters coming up from below the earth's surface.

But even recent "scientific" findings throw egg all over Fr. Robinson's face.  I saw one study where it says that there's more water in and beneath the crust of the earth than in all the oceans combined.  We've only ever dug down about 9 miles, so we have absolutely no idea what's down there, and there's nothing to rule out vast underground oceans below that point.  God could have caused a rupture of the earth's crust to allow waters to flow up.  Scientists simply make up their nonsensical theories about what's under the earth's surface, present them as fact, especially to young children in school, but then are constantly "baffled" when their various theories are invalidated.  Similarly, if you believe in space, the Webb telescope (and other "scientific" findings) are invalidating the Big Bang and the "expanding universe".  So it was very foolish for Fr. Robinson to hand his hat on the latest passing scientific theory ... at the expense of Sacred Scripture.  I recall in reading some passages from the Church Fathers about the shape of the earth where one Father called out the constant churn in the latest fashionable theory about the matter, with one displacing the next every few years.  But I guess these "Biblicists" happened to be wiser that Fr. Robinson.

With his derogatory term "Biblicist", an insult to the Church Fathers and to the Doctors and theologians through at least the time of St. Robert Bellarmine, and, what's worse, an insult to the Holy Ghost, the Author of Sacred Scripture, and all who have revered Sacred Scripture as the Word of God, Fr. Robinson puts both his irreverence and his hubris / extreme arrogance on display.

Fr. Robinson has also championed the concept of "uniformitarianism," which was popularized by an individual who openly expressed contempt for Sacred Scripture and made it his life's mission to destroy belief in it, a buddy of Chuck Darwin, Chuck Lyell.  Really?  When, as Fr. Robinson claims, the earth is 4.6 billion years old, we can be sure that conditions haven't changed ever and that the earth was basically the same 4.6 billion years ago as it is now?  Does he have any idea how long that is and how many things can change, from atmospheric conditions to geology?  How does he know there wasn't a water canopy above the earth (one theory)?  He does he know the atmosphere wasn't far more humid?  How does he know that there weren't fluctuations in radiological phenomena, due to shifts of the earth's magnetic fields?  Fr. Robinson knows absolutely nothing and is supremely arrogant despite his pretensions to being all-knowing.  He clearly looks down on the average, uneducated Trad Catholic, complacent in his "erudition" while actually showing himself to be supremely ignorant.

Fr. Robinson also rejected appeals from Traditional Catholics to sign objections of conscience against the jab.

Fr. Robinson is a Modernist masquerading as a Traditional Catholic priest.