"Every Catholic thread I find" almost always seems to have a post by a Catholic making a crack about young earth creationism, a "G-d-breathed Bible" (a quotation from your St. Paul, btw), "bobble toters," snake-handlers, and "know-nothings" (language remarkably similar to that used by Foxman's ADL, btw).
I will never cease to wonder why some Catholics insist on pretending that my criticisms of that religion have no basis in reality when the Catholics on this very forum wear their evolutionism and higher criticism on their sleeves--not to mention just about every Catholic book and periodical of the modern era.
Oh, pleeeease.
More like someone will (in about 200 cases, me) make some comment which doesn’t agree with your exegesis, which will launch you on a tirade along the lines of “first you hold this opinion, and next thing you know you’re accepting evolution and condoning gay marriage.”
By “all the Earth,” does Genesis mean Mt Everest was covered? Maybe not? You ‘re an evolutionist!
Did Moses write Deuteronomy in his own hand? What’s that, you say? It was a redaction written after Moses? You’re evolutionist!
Was the first day 24 hours? Of course it was, you evolutionist!
Was the book of Daniel complete and in its current form by the time of the return from Babylonian exile? Of course, you evolutionist!
You even called me an evolutionist because I wrote that the Masoretic text was standardized after the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Little wonder why you call Benedict XVI and John Paul II evolutionists despite EXTENSIVE writings, including dogmatic encyclicals, describing Adam and Eve as literal, historical figures.
(For any lurkers, I happen to believe that the universe legitimately appears old, but it was created in the state of looking old, just like Adam was created as an adult, and not as a newborn baby or zygote.)