ORG:Father Stravinskas Gives The Catholic Answer

   On page 9 of the Catholic Chronicles (Jan.-Feb. issue, 1988) a Roman
Catholic asks, "can a Catholic believe in evolution?" Father Peter M.J.
Stravinskas answers, and the ad for his column says, "Ouestions to
Father Peter Stravinskas can concern anything about the church and
church teachings." He is from the Lithuanian Catholic Center in
Brooklyn, New York. The "Father" answers:

   "Catholic theology provides believers with a way to safeguard the
Biblical doctrine of creation and to accept the theory of evolution at
the same time....We are here dealing in Genesis 1 with Hebrew poetry
which is not intended to be taken literally....God began the
evolutionary process and then personally intervened when a creature had
reached that perfection which was fit to receive an immortal soul...Of
course, faith and science can never contradict each other, because when
engaged in properly, both seek to lead people to truth and, ultimately,
the Truth...."

   Father Stravinskas is a liar. The creation of man has nothing to do
with the theory of evolution in Genesis 1 and 2 in the sense of
"believing" an evolutionary account. All evolutionists teach that there
was rain on this earth a good one million years before man ever showed
up. In the Bible, there was no rain coming down on this earth till more
than a thousand yesrs after man shows up.

   This poor nut thinks that if you insert the theory that God allowed
things to go like Darwin said until some monkey got to the place where
it was "fit to receive an immortal soul," that God slipped it in. He is
a real monkey himself.

   There is not an evolutionist on the face of this earth who believes
that the earth was created before the sun. In the account in Genesis 1,
the earth is created before the sun is created. God wrote His Book so
you have to take a choice, and there is nothing figurative about God
making a lesser light to rule the night and making a greater light to
rule the day. The only way you can call them figurstive is if you are a
monkey man trying to justify your ancestry.
