Grateful for Catholic school during formative years…
Both Fundamentalist Christian and Public Schools have their drawbacks. And not sure about stats, but anecdotally, it seems the former “foundation” leads to loss of faith just as much too…
And personally I an agnostic about how old the earth is within the confines of understanding of time - BUT I do not believe man descended from ape.
My belief is Adam was made from the dust. Period. AND there was a flood that engulfed the world with Noah’s family spared, etc...
This puts me at odds with more flexible Catholic teaching, which is a sort of theistic evolution framework — but I appreciated the flexibility and room for discussion between all viewpoints in the classroom nonetheless.
The cure for such ignorance is enlightenment
We rely on so called scientific theories instead of the Biblical account. Now we know the aboriginal universe was fully formed at birth and dinosaur fosssils have flexible collagen and protein and dna remnants. Now were learning about the elasticity of time and the vast speciation that allowed dinosaurs to develop into birds.
“ Join me as I expose why evolutionary ideas about rock layers are not only false, but very harmful.”
Flat-earthers, silver-cures-bacterial infections, anti-evolutionists, and young-earthers all fail to use the huge brains God evolved for us.
I believe most scientific minds thot these high school evolution classes were bunk. White and black moths on trees stained with coal dust means nothing in terms of evolution.
My conjecture here and I believe the following: Adam was directly created by God as a Man, Benei Elohim” (בני האלהים) let us suppose he was about 30 years old at his creation, could’ve been younger, probably not older. Everyone else is a ‘Son of Man’ or ‘Son of Adam’, as Jesus legally made sure to point this out often to us for the future Court of Heaven to judge his actions upon.
Adam died (age 930) before he reached the age of “one day” or 1000 years.
1000 years = 1 day looking at the clock on the wall in Heaven,
Meaning he only had about 70 years in total, to still be (in the day)
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that [[in the day]] ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” - Genesis 3:4-5 (emphasis added)
Do the simple math of translating from the days of the glorious Earth with God walking in the Garden (Eden) clothed with light with them to our darkened ‘day’ with a now dead Earth expiring and groaning and waiting to be delivered and we are well beyond the timeline (millions of years) even where this fallen corrupted secular world believes is the age of humans upon the Earth.
Time itself is a construct, where we exist *halfway* in its dimension, we can only move forward and never back, it is a part of our physical creation like a rug or a carpet in the dining room, it can be stretched or pulled depending on your relative location, speed and movement toward or away from it. It is also a part of the seven (7) divided in half as a time, times and *half* a time, (3.5)
Of course all this happened pre-flood, ‘out of the water’ as Peter points out specifically:
“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that [[one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.]]
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. “ - 2 Peter 3:5-9 (emphasis added)