Author Topic: Scientific Heresies and Their Effect on the Church (Read 4619 times)

klasG4e · « **on:** September 25, 2018, 11:24:10 AM »

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Scientific Heresies and Their Effect on the Church
Scientific Heresies and Their Effect on the Church provides a detailed and comprehensive rebuttal to the scientific, theological and exegetical views held by Fr. Paul Robinson, including his views on: The Big Bang; long-ages for the Universe and Earth; progressive creationism; heliocentrism; a local Noachic flood; and current views on radiometry and sedimentology.
This book was written for two purposes: First, to educate the public at large by a critical examination of science and history, especially in the areas of cosmogony and cosmology. Although modern science purports to know the origin and operation of the universe, in reality it comprehends very little and actually spreads more falsehood today than it does truth. On its face, modern science is the last formidable bastion of secular society. It is touted as impregnable and invincible. Indeed, today’s scientists have the education, the grants, the sophisticated equipment, the iconic image, the universities, the newspapers and the general media on their side. Opposing voices can barely form a whisper of contention. It is truly a Goliath if there ever was one in our modern age and it is as big as the universe itself.

Second, this book contends with Catholics, and anyone else, who have accepted the major teachings of modern science and thereby have rejected either biblical revelation, the traditional ecclesiastical consensus, or the official magisterial statements that disagree with modern science’s theories or conclusions. As one can see by the title, I have chosen to focus on the recent book by Fr. Paul Robinson, The Realist Guide to Religion and Science. He is a priest of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a very conservative but embattled branch of Roman Catholicism. The reason he was chosen is normally we don’t see many examples of staunchly conservative Catholic groups being unduly influenced by the theories of modern science to the point they either reject or neutralize the biblical, traditional and magisterial teachings. If there is any group of Catholics from whom we could expect a rigid traditional Catholic view of either the Bible or its interpretation, it is the SSPX, at least in its beginnings under its founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. But like many conservative groups today, the inevitable tendency is to judge scientific issues according to the world’s “status quo” and to avoid being dubbed “Fundamentalist.” Fr. Robinson’s book, insofar as he represents the SSPX, has proven to be no exception.

Scientific Heresies and Their Effect on the Church provides a detailed and comprehensive rebuttal to the scientific, theological and exegetical views held by Fr. Paul Robinson, including his views on: The Big Bang; long-ages for the Universe and Earth; progressive creationism; heliocentrism; a local Noachic flood; and current views on radiometry and sedimentology.
575 pages.

Geremia · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2018, 12:15:00 PM »

Nice! Sungenis is quite prolific, and he's a great exegete. I'm glad to seem he took on Fr. Paul Robinson's conciliatory book.

I see he quotes extensively from Abp. Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics.

Geremia · « **Reply #2 on:** September 25, 2018, 12:34:12 PM »

I haven't read Fr. Robinson's actual book, but the quotes of in in Sungenis's are really strange. For example, Fr. Robinson calls the Protestant heretics "Reformers", and he argues that the Church tried to interpret Scriptures more literally during the Galileo affair!

And Fr. Robinson distinguishes "supernatural" vs. "natural" history. In a letter to a certain Mark: "His death is something natural, His resurrection something supernatural." This is pure Modernism. I've heard Jesuits say similar nonsense, such as that the Galileo affair was only due to political issues!
Pascendi §6:

Quote from: Pope St. Pius X

…it is inferred [by the Modernists] that God can never be the direct object of science, and that, as regards history, He must not be considered as an historical subject.

Also, Pope St. Pius X quotes:

Quote from: Gregory IX Epist. ad Magistros theol. paris. July 7, 1223.

Some among you, puffed up like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the meaning of the sacred text…to the philosophical teaching of the rationalists, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science…these men, led away by various and strange doctrines, turn the head into the tail and force the queen to serve the handmaid.

Sungenis is more realist.

Geremia · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2018, 01:07:00 PM »

This Fr. Robinson is violating his Anti-Modernist Oath:

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Besides I reject the opinion of those who hold that to present the historical and theological disciplines the teacher or the writer on these subjects must first divest himself of previously conceived opinion either on the supernatural origin of Catholic tradition, or on the aid promised by God for the perpetual preservation of every revealed truth; then that the writings of the individual Fathers are to be interpreted only by the principles of science, setting aside all divine authority, and by that freedom of judgment with which any profane docuмent is customarily investigated.

roscoe · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2018, 02:33:24 PM »

Sungenis is Sola Scriptura Dogmatic Geocentrist who cannot figure out that E rev around S...

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