Greetings Biblical Studs,
This week we have been unpacking thoughts on the creation of the universe as we know it. We will be looking at three schools of thought: Creationism, Evolutionism, and Intelligent Design. The film clip above is an extended preview of the film we will be watching starring Ben Stein. I hope you enjoy it!
Put your thinking caps on boys, and your spiritual glasses. Many intelligent people want to corner one of these world views and isolate and close off the others, but the Catholic vision is not fundamentalist (Creationism without Science) or Evolutionism (Science without a Creator) but something far grander and more beautifully harmonious than we can imagine! Stay tuned!
PS - Pope Benedict published a series of homilies on creation… He argued there that we shouldn't speak of "creation or evolution," but of "creation and evolution" (emphasis added). He also referred to what he called "the inner unity of creation and evolution and faith and reason."
With his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, Pope Benedict has opposed the misguided notion that evolution somehow proves there is no God who created us in love. In his very first homily as pontiff, he insisted: "We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary."
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