06/03/2009

The Vatican’s five-day conference this month to debate the compatibility of evolution and creation is a flawed undertaking from the start.

It is inevitable, because Catholic doctrine is in serious error on a number of points, and Darwin’s theory is one hundred per cent wrong.

The Roman Catholic Church does not hold as its final authority the text of its mother, the Bible. Instead, it reserves the right to interpret according to its understanding—a right it thinks Jesus Christ gave, but did not.

The late Pope John Paul, of course, had opened the floodgates when he said that God might have used evolution to create the universe.

Now, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s waffle-filled hypothesis, On the Origin of Species, the Roman church is getting together with scientists to talk it over, just to make sure the church doesn’t pillory anyone else, having damned and restored Galileo.

Science, by and large, is based on what it thinks is the unassailable belief that the universe and all biology came about by a series of random acts, with no intelligent input. So there is immediate polarization of views. Design without intelligence.

But the Roman church, like many Christians, wants compromise. They want intelligence but working through randomness.

What bothers some tender-hearted scientists is that Creation shows some bad aspects—such as death, bloodshed, and apparent cruelty. They don’t believe a good God could have made so many mistakes.

What they and the Roman church miss, of course, is that the bad things are the inescapable results of the Fall of Mankind—the rebellion. No creation of God is going to successfully rebel without dire consequences. And we live with them today, the chief of which is death itself.

God is not an imperfect engineer. What he created was very good. It is just that we have ruined it, and we will justify our position vigorously until the End. Then evolutionary scientists and other compromisers will get one huge shock.