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(Please refrain from bluffing with respect to knowing Catholic teaching. I am a certified Catechist by the Church. I will call you on it every time you try it.)

>>"And like how the creation days are viewed symbolically."<<

Please provide a citation because that is not Church teaching.

337 II. THE VISIBLE WORLD

337 God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.204 On the subject of creation, the sacred text teaches the truths revealed by God for our salvation,205 permitting us to "recognize the inner nature, the value and the ordering of the whole of creation to the praise of God."206

You might want to start reviewing the ccc again.

I don't bluff.

"You might want to start reviewing the ccc again."

Scripture does present the work in a symbolic manner, but they are not viewed that way. God had to create the physical world before He could create the Universe. This required that He establish the laws of physics (natural revelation) to govern what he would introduce. When He created light and separated the darkness from the light, before He was creating time as the marking of the periods of darkness and light were the first and most primitive means of measuring time (Genesis 1:3-4). He then created space which is presented by separating waters. Because He had not created waters how else is it to be taken if not symbolic in its presentation?

(Please refrain from bluffing with respect to knowing Catholic teaching. I am a certified Catechist by the Church. I will call you on it every time you try it.)

>>"And like how the creation days are viewed symbolically."<<

Please provide a citation because that is not Church teaching.

337 II. THE VISIBLE WORLD

337 God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.204 On the subject of creation, the sacred text teaches the truths revealed by God for our salvation,205 permitting us to "recognize the inner nature, the value and the ordering of the whole of creation to the praise of God."206

You might want to start reviewing the ccc again.

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Apparently we have found the source of the poor catechesis we constantly hear so much about!