Trying to read through this made my head hurt. The author seems to be arguing that, according to Catholic doctrine, two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") can be identified within the broader population of evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals within the broader population of evolving former-primates who sinned and cursed the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.
Perhaps a better question to put to the author would have been "Did a Literal Garden of Eden, and a Literal Tree Of Life, Really Exist"?
Yes, that's it exactly. And all of this, which today's Catholics pretend has been the teaching from time immemorial, is all derived from an allergy to the Bible the Catholics picked up from the Protestant reformation. How great must be the hatred that caused such a change in perspective.
Perhaps a better question to put to the author would have been "Did a Literal Garden of Eden, and a Literal Tree Of Life, Really Exist"?
Alex . . . you and I both know what their answer to those questions would be.
>>Trying to read through this made my head hurt. The author seems to be arguing that, according to Catholic doctrine, two distinct individual homo sapiens (”Adam and Eve”) can be identified within the broader population of evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals within the broader population of evolving former-primates who sinned and cursed the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.<<
The very definition of theological gymnastics.