It's late and I'm doing this from memory. I'll have to go to my favorite book, Theology and Sanity, for some better illustrations tomorrow. Or maybe not at all. Does it matter to you?
Nothing I have discussed here requires memory, documentation or appeal to authority.
I have simply stated that it make no sense to start with the premis that it is impossible for something to come from nothing, then claim a special exemption for God. Either something can come from nothing, or the whole question is an artifact of the imprecision of language. In either case the cquestion cannot be resolved by mere humans.
Interesting. Interesting in that Catholics accept the possibility of science and evolution.
"Genesis tells us of the fact but not of the process: there was an assembling of elements of the material universe, but was it instantaneous, or spread over a considerable space of time? Was it complete in one act, or by stages? Were those elements, for instance, formed into an animal body which as one generation followed another gradually evolved
Not all biologists are closed-minded on challenges to evolution, nor are all scientists in general. But on a debate board you're gonna find mostly the TRUE BELIEVERS on both sides, hence the frequent rancor.
I think the cracks are starting to form in the facade. Alternative ideas can't be squelched forever, or shouted down forever, or made fun of forever.
Too bad none of us will be around in a century. I think a lot of people here would be very surprised at the scientific theories of the future, and their implication for pure naturalism.