The only troll here is the one who suddenly appeared from SD a month ago to mock Catholics who believe what God reveals about His Creation in the Bible.

Username:Jaynek
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Date Registered:June 12, 2011, 03:37:49 AM

You did not answer my question.  Did you read the entire texts of Spiritus Paraclitus and Providentissimus Deus?

The quotes provided speak for themselves. It isn't possible that Scripture is scientifically inaccurate, according to the Church. Also, the Church condemned the modernist notion that if something isn't defined, we don't have to believe it when the Church has a history of teaching it in other ways.  

If a Catholic believes that Scripture speaks only to matters of faith, and not to the sciences, then I have to assume that they also believe, as the modernists do, that faith and science are to be kept separate.

Here's a quote from Pope St. Pius X, on the Doctrine of the Modernists, from Pascendi Dominici Gregis. I'm quoting part of #16, called "Faith and Science." He is speaking to the doctrine of the modernists regarding faith and science:

#16:

Faith and Science

"Having reached this point, venerable brethren, we have sufficient material in hand to enable us to see the relations which Modernists establish between faith and science. And in the first place it is to be held that the object of the one is quite extraneous to and separate from the object of the other. For faith occupies itself solely with something which science declares to be 'unknowable' for it. Hence, each has a separate field assigned for it: science is to be entirely concerned with the reality of phenomena, into which faith does not enter at all; faith on the contrary concerns itself with the divine reality which is entirely unknown to science. Thus the conclusion is reached that there can never be any dissention between faith and science, for if each keeps on its own ground they can never meet and therefore be in contradiction."

I am assuming that your refusal to answer the question means that you have not read the full texts.  That could explain why you seem to misunderstand them.
It is the clear teaching of three papal encyclicals that Scripture does not intend to teach about science.  Of course, I believe it.  I accept Church teaching.

I am assuming that your refusal to answer the question means that you have not read the full texts.  That could explain why you seem to misunderstand them.
It is the clear teaching of three papal encyclicals that Scripture does not intend to teach about science.  Of course, I believe it.  I accept Church teaching.

Your comment confirms that you have not understood what I believe.  

Of course, faith and science are connected.  They are both at the service of truth and should work together.  Faith, however, is the greater and science must always submit to faith if there seems to be a conflict.  The dogmas of our faith are infallible while science is never infallible.  It is always subject to change.

However, when people misunderstand Church teachings and interpret Scripture in opposition to how we should, this not part of our Faith and is very much fallible.

The book of Ezekiel speaks of Jerusalem as in the middle of the earth, and all other parts of the world as set around the holy city.   Throughout the "ages of faith" this was very generally accepted as a direct revelation from the Almighty regarding the earth's form.   St. Jerome, the greatest authority of the early Church upon the Bible, declared, on the strength of this utterance of the prophet, that Jerusalem could be nowhere but at the earth's centre; in the ninth century Archbishop Rabanus Maurus reiterated the same argument; in the eleventh century Hugh of St. Victor gave to the doctrine another scriptural demonstration; and Pope Urban, in his great sermon at Clermont urging the Franks to the crusade, declared, "Jerusalem is the middle point of the earth"; in the thirteenth century an ecclesiastical writer much in vogue, the monk Caesarius of Heisterbach, declared, "As the heart in the midst of the body, so is Jerusalem situated in the midst of our inhabited earth," - "so it was that Christ was crucified at the centre of the earth." Dante accepted this view of Jerusalem as a certainty, wedding it to immortal verse; and in the pious book of travels ascribed to Sir John Mandeville, so widely read in the Middle Ages, it is declared that Jerusalem is at the centre of the world, and that a spear standing erect at the Holy Sepulchre casts no shadow at the equinox.