Wow. You must REALLY love hitting children, to be still obsessing about it days later.
I believe Scripture. I just don’t take an idiotic, troglodytic approach to it that says Scripture teaches science. And whether hitting children has good effects is a matter of science.
Appealing to science for your truth?
That's a sure way to fall into error.
Proverbs 23:13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
You present a good case for NOT having unmarried people without having raised their own children giving married people who have raised or are raising children advice on marriage or parenting.
Ah yes, the fire-breathing, ultra-conservative, Francis-bashing Arthur McGowan is an evolutionist! Like all good Catholics! Thank goodness that Jerome and all the church fathers were up-to-date, with-it hep-cats who knew that supernatural events can't actually occur (unless they're in the "new testament," of course) and that all Biblical statements must be judged by the yardstick of modern science! After all, didn't the Church put that ignorant troglodyte Galileo under house arrest for teaching "Protestant creationism???" [/sarcasm]
By the way, one of the sciences is "historical science," and all the events related in the Torah are certainly historically true (regardless of how "heretical" this may be to Catholicism)!