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To: Zionist Conspirator; rzman21; metmom
You say that since Genesis is a theological text rather than a history book it can't be interpreted literally. Does that mean that since Luke isn't a science text its assertions about the virgin birth and resurrection from the dead can't be taken literally?

The awesome power of infallible definition is used sparingly, mainly for the painful yet necessary task of purging heretics. One must accept the virgin birth and resurrection to be considered Catholic, but it has not yet been deemed necessary to cast evolutionists from the Arc of Salvation. Perhaps declaring macro-evolution to be anathema would have spared us the aberration of Vatican II.

164 posted on 01/09/2012 9:56:17 AM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
The awesome power of infallible definition is used sparingly, mainly for the painful yet necessary task of purging heretics. One must accept the virgin birth and resurrection to be considered Catholic, but it has not yet been deemed necessary to cast evolutionists from the Arc of Salvation.

Unfortunately, creationists do not seem to be receiving the same consideration. Catholic publications, programs, and public figures are at war against them.

Also you are looking at this problem from the wrong end. The issue here is not "evolution" but the facticity of the Biblical narrative, howsoever much that narrative violates the rules of nature. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to shunt science aside when it comes to the virgin birth while rejecting creationism because of what science says. All miracles are equally "impossible." Yet Genesis 1-11 is routinely treated as if the events it describes are uniquely impossible in a way no other miracles are.

183 posted on 01/10/2012 1:16:45 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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