Denying Creation

	Note: Evolution is a fairy tale for grownups. The propagation of this lie is furthered by many reprobate minds that wish to give the creature more worth than the creator. An example of such Bible denying junk follows. For centuries most people thought that God had created everything in the beginning and that afterwards the universe had remained more or less the same: God had placed the sun the earth and the stars in their proper place and they kept on turning the same way. We have just seen that this idea no longer holds People also thought that, in the beginning God had created "a" human being," a" horse," "a sheep," " a lion," and that each one had had descendants similar to it. We now know that this is not so, but that God's creation is gradual and that new species appear. We can take the growing child as a point of comparison. He is a creature of God at birth, but he grows, learns and becomes an adult. Being an adult will be very different from being a child. Yet, the adult is still God's' creature and it is God who enabled him to grow. The same thing happens with the human family. In the beginning God did not create the beings we now know. Billions of years ago the world of living beings was a "baby world with primitive plants and animals which do not exist today. There were no four legged animal, no birds, and naturally there were no people. But from them, through a series of transformation and evolution, other living beings better organized and more developed than those in the world at the beginning. And thus, there was not "a" Creation but what was begun followed its path with the energies that God had placed in it. This is the history we are going to summarize in a few lines. The emergence of living beings One or two billion years ago. when the earth was still hot and enveloped in thick clouds from which boiling showers were constantly falling, the first living beings appeared in the seas. They were minute beings, like microbes which multiplied and evolved as soon as they appeared. God had not created a collection of living beings destined to reproduce themselves in the same way. God was creating Life and Life was developing. It was not only the struggle for survival which made the weakest disappear and the better prepared remain. It was not chance alone which in each species, gave rise to beings with characteristics different from those of their predecessors. There were spiritual forces at wok within the living matter-creating new organs in every species, attempting to solve each problem in a thousand different ways such as developing organs for seeing, hearing, feeling, running, swimming, flying. Life was the work of a free and intelligent God and this intelligent God, and this uncontainable Force was looking for the tools that would enable creatures to be freer and more intelligent. And the most effective tool was the brain. The most primitive beings had only a few nerve centers, but in one of these cores was formed a real control center: The brain. Throughout five hundred million years the brain developed. There appeared new species with a large and better structured brain. After the reptiles, mammals appeared, and among the latter were the anthropomorphous, that is to say, animals of human form. Some are still in existence today and they from the most important group of apes. And these anthropomorphous, led by creative forces at the service of the divine plan, evolved in such a way that their brains and bodies could already be those of a free and intelligent being. Some three million years ago there appeared a race already resembling people today; they already knew hot to cut stones in a very rudimentary way. Then, approximately a million years ago, the famous Pithecanthropus (Java man) had overcome the fear of fire inherent to animals, and was using fire... Did the above sound like an introduction to evolution? What you just read was an introduction from a Catholic Bible. The reference is as follows: "Christian Community Bible" Translated, presented and commented for the Christian Communities of the Philippines and the Third World; and for those who seek God. Complete text translated from Hebrew and Greek. Claretain Publications Saint Paul Publications Divine Word Publications. Copyright @Bernardo Hurault 1990, Main writer: Patricia Grogan FCJ Nihil Obstat Efren Rivera OP Imprimatur Catholic Biships' Conference for the Philippines by Cirilo R Almario No, this isn't Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Catholic church teaches a denial of the six literal days of creation! Therefore it is a denial of the facts given in Genesis chapter one! Makes you wonder what other parts of God's Word they CHOOSE to deny. If this wasn't enough proof for you then read on. Here is an excerpt from Pope JP II's statement to the Academy: "In his Encyclical Humani generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII had already stated that there was no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man ... Pius XII stressed this essential point: if the human body takes its origin from pre-existent living matter, the spiritual soul is immediately created by God ... For my part ... [I have said that] the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences ... Today ... the theory of evolution ... has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence ... of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favour of this theory." (Pope John Paul II, "Message to Pontifical Academy of Sciences," in L'Osservatore Romano, 30 October 1996, pp. 3,7) JP II was simply regurgitating the official position of his Church. In May 1982, on the hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's death, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences held a conference of scientists in honor of Darwin and issued this statement: "We are convinced that masses of evidence render the application of the concept of evolution to man and other primates beyond serious dispute." (Father Edward Daschbach, S.V.D., "Catholics and Creationism," in Visitor, October 21, 1984, p.3) As a further example of endorsements by the Roman Catholic Church, in 1967 the New Catholic Encyclopedia had declared confidently: "Evidence ... supports... the fact of organic evolution. The best judges of the matter are the specialists who, over a period of 100 years, have assembled the necessary evidence. For them the fact of evolution has been established as thoroughly as science can establish facts of the past not witnessed by human eyes." (New Catholic Encyclopedia, McGraw-Hill, 1967, vol.5, P. 689.) Obviously it is time to place your trust in the Bible and not some man-made set of rules and tradition. Salvation is not in your "good works", Mary, the Pope, confession, water baptism, confirmation, sacraments, a rosary or ashes on your forehead. Salvation is in ONE man, Jesus Christ. II Timothy 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." Scott R. Roffers