You know I don’t really see how this relates to whether or not the Church Fathers were Catholic, but I’ll give you my take on your subtopic.
My problem with most creationists is that for too long they have allowed the Darwinists to control the debate.
Darwinism is not now nor has it ever been about whether or not mankind descended from tadpoles. Darwinism is about the left’s desire to destroy traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and replace God with the intellect and their tool for this has been to use eugenics to create the “right” population (i.e. the Master Race).
They have been delighted to spend the past century debating evolution, because while this debate has gone on they have MURDERED ONE BILLION HUMAN BEINGS all while being able to hide behind the facade of science. The average person has NO CLUE the amount of deadly destruction that Darwinism has brought. And the Darwinists have been able to do this because they know that deep down most people DO NOT believe that the Universe was created in six 24 hour days. The Darwinists also know that most people DO believe in God and DO believe that He created the Universe, so they simply shift the debate to an argument about time, biology and geology. The result, they make it appear that most people agree with them, when the reality is that most people haven’t even got a clue about their real agenda.
It would be like having a debate about the Nazis and only focusing on the Nazi book burnings. The Nazis would simply debate the matter of censorship because they realize that deep down ONLY the anarchists are totally opposed to all forms of censorship (I don’t care what anyone says, but at some point there is SOMETHING that they will agree the government should ban, perhaps it has to do with politics, perhaps it is pornographic images of children, perhaps it is depictions of violence, but at some point EVERYONE says enough). Now, this would no doubt be a very lively and heated debate, but it could also go on indefinitely without EVER addressing the true evils of Nazism.
In other words, your anti-Darwinism isn't based on a defense of the Word of G-d at all but on philosophy. Again, my generalization of Catholics and other liturgical chr*stians holds good.
I wonder how many people believe J*sus was conceived without a father and came out of his mother's side in order to prevent tearing her hymen? For some reason that seems terribly important to people who don't care whether or not the Word spoken by G-d is absolutely true.
Since Zionist Conspirator has centered on the inerrancy of Scripture – to which I hold – I offer here my own testimony:
The Scriptures are the inerrant words of God. Period. But the words of God must be Spiritually discerned.
I see no conflict at all in the revelations of God the Father in (a) Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, (b) the indwelling Holy Spirit (c) Scriptures and (d) Creation, both spiritual and physical.
In sum, I aver that seven equivalent earth days from the inception space/time coordinates (big bang) is equal to roughly fifteen billion years from our space/time coordinates on earth. For more on this point, Scriptures vis-à-vis Inflationary Theory and Relativity see Age of the Universe by Jewish physicist Gerald Schroeder.
IMHO, at the root of the theological differences over Creation Week we often find Romans 5:12–14 and I Corinthians 15:42–48 - one side saying that Adam was the first mortal man (YEC) and the other saying that Adam was the first ensouled man (OEC.)
But I also have no “dog” in that dispute because I see Adam as created in the spiritual realm, the first man to become a “living soul” (Genesis 2) and I do not see him becoming earth bound until he was banished to mortality at the end of Genesis 3.
In other words, I assert that the first three chapters of Scripture deal with the creation not only of the physical realm but the spiritual as well (emphasis mine:)
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground. – Genesis 2:4-5
God created the plants and herbs before they were in the earth (Gen 2:4-5)
The intersection or “types” in the physical realm and spiritual realm: Temple, Ark, Tabernacle, Eden/Paradise.
My understanding of the time appointed to Adamic men is very similar to the Jewish understanding and that of the early Christians - namely, that Adamic man (after he was banished to mortality in Genesis 3) - is appointed 7,000 years (corresponding to Creation week) the last 1,000 years being the Sabbath reign of Christ on earth (Revelation 20.)
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. - 2 Pet 3:8
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. – Genesis 5:5
It was also the early Christian understanding. This, from the Epistle of Barnabas 15:3-5:
Returning to Scripture and evolution, God specifically mentions things He specially created – and He also leaves the door open to evolution theory here:
The Intelligent Design hypothesis is appealing to me and credible on the face. It simply states that “certain features of the universe and life are best explained by intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.” And because animals are known to choose their mates, it is obvious that “certain features” are best explained by those choices.
I find most of the ID disputes to be theological, ideological or political – rarely on the merits on the hypothesis which I consider to be more of an observation.
My main dispute with evolution theory is the improper use of the word and concept of “random” when the correct word and concept is “unpredictable.” Stochastic methods apply to either. But a person cannot say something is random in the system when he does not know what the system “is” – and science does not know – and can never know – the full dimensionality of space/time.
So the use of the word “random” overstates what is known and knowable by the scientific method.
I do however have a very strong objection to those scientists like Dawkins, Pinker, Singer and Lewontin who misappropriate the theory of evolution to proliferate anti-Christ and anti-God sentiment under the color of science.
The Christian or Jew looks at the depth and height of the physical creation – and sees a revelation of the Creator whereas others see a different context (e.g. Buddhism) or no context at all (atheism/agnosticism.)
Nevertheless, no matter what a Christian may see when he looks at Scriptures and the physical Creation, the bottom line is: to God be the glory!
Man is not the measure of God.