Sungenis is a brilliant man in some respects, but he has turned himself into a laughing stock in this respect.
I liked him when he was a mainstream Catholic apologist in his EWTN days, but this makes everything else he believes in seem silly even if he makes good points about undisputed core Catholic teachings.
A high IQ is not incompatible with being stupid.
Is he by any chance related to Pab?
Perhaps he should convert to Islam
Opening paragraph of
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
by Theodosius Dobzhansky
As recently as 1966, sheik Abd el Aziz bin Baz asked the king of Saudi Arabia to suppress a heresy that was spreading in his land. Wrote the sheik:
"The Holy Koran, the Prophet’s teachings, the majority of Islamic scientists, and the actual facts all prove that the sun is running in its orbit . . . and that the earth is fixed and stable, spread out by God for his mankind. . . . Anyone who professed otherwise would utter a charge of falsehood toward God, the Koran, and the Prophet."
The good sheik evidently holds the Copernican theory to be a "mere theory," not a "fact." In this he is technically correct. A theory can be verified by a mass of facts, but it becomes a proven theory, not a fact...