[heterosupremacist]

dsc wrote: “I am Not buyin’ what they be sellin’...” Okay, so how did those fossils become encased in that breccia? I'm not disputing the scientific fact that these fossils exist, but call me skeptical about the dating of said fossils... Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata Mundi, miserere nobis. P.S. the Agnus Dei has long been one of my favorite hymns - I started singing it as soon as I read your reply!

[dsc]

I am one of those who don’t think there is any conflict between Catholicism and science that cannot be explained by human error.

Once you swallow the camel—God created the heavens and the earth—getting all wrapped around the axle about exactly how He did it or how long it took Him seems like straining at a gnat.

Maybe we are way off on dating the fossil record. The prospect neither excites nor daunts me. Maybe God created man by a process of successive approximations that took what looks like billions of years to us.

I’ve toyed with the speculation that it wasn’t until the Toba dieback that mankind were ensouled, but there’s nothing to back that up.

My point is that it’s not really something to get all exercised about.