[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.

[heterosupremacist]

*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.* True, God existed before He created the cosmos, and everything in it. God is eternal, He is the one who created time! It is irrelevant, even if the dating is correct; (I'm not exercised about it) I just don't like the idea of scientists being so smug about their predictions... They demand that you take their speculations as facts, so I ain't buying what they are selling. Dominus vobiscum ╬