Father Cantalamessa and Biblical Creation

From Catholicnews.com
Papal preacher says intelligent design is truth of faith, not science. By Cindy Wooden. Catholic News Service.Mar-13-2009

While some proponents of intelligent design claim that it is a scientifically valid theory, most scientists dismiss it as pseudoscience.The arguments, Father Cantalamessa said, are due to the fact that, "in my opinion, there is not a clear enough distinction between intelligent design is due mainly to a confusion between scientific theory and the truths of faith.

The Bible makes statements that have scientific implications. When the Bible says "in the begininig God created" there is an undeniable first cause insisted. Evolution science (sic) suggests that all things seen are the result of chance. Even when one focuses upon biological evolution there will always be a focus upon inorganic evolution.

Those that advocate a belief in the Bible and macro evolution cannot find congruency. Father Cantalamessa is incorrect in his article to deny the Bible's explicit doctrine of special creation. It is interesting that he would focus on Paul's writing to the Romans regarding physical properties taking place now.

Father Cantalamessa's Lenten reflection focused on a verse from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans: "All creation is groaning in labor pains even until now."
The text, he said, is an indication that St. Paul believes that the entire cosmos -- not just humanity -- is waiting to be saved and restored to its original beauty by Christ.

Father Cantalamessa made a scientific statement quoting Paul's letters. Everything is waiting to be restored to an original beauty. Evolution suggests that all life came from a primordial pool of ooze. Is this the original beauty that we should look forward to? I think another passage of Paul's writing to Romans should be examined.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.Romans 1:20.

Macro evolution when taken to it's conclusion denies the existence of God. Those that follow it's teachings are forced to deny what is clearly revealed to their conscious.

Obama Chooses to Kill Unborn Babies

While most of the country is worried about thier own nickles and dimes, President Barak Obama has chosen to allow funding for embryonic stem cell research. An embryo is an unborn human. By endorsing research into the lives of unborn children, the value of life is deminished. The psalmist wrote:

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. Psa 139:13

Obama is allowing our tax money to be spent destroying the gift of life granted to every unborn child. Evolution philsophy has shown in it's grotesque nature in ignoring the gift of God. Below is an action alert email from the American Family Association. Visit http://www.afa.net/. for more information.


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Obama OKs embryonic stem cell research; actions are immoral and ineffective
March 10, 2009

Dear Nancy,

President Obama has given the ok to destroy human life in the name of scientific research.Embryonic stem cell research is immoral and ineffective. It is immoral because it destroys human life at its earliest stage of development by harvesting the stem cells for body parts. It is ineffective because it has yet to be used a single time in any therapeutic application.Researchers must get their funding from taxpayers for embryonic stem cell research because they can't convince private sources to invest. Private investors know there are no proven uses for embryonic stem cells. It's all hype, hope and theory.But adult stem cell research, on the other hand, is ethically benign and is already being used to treat over 70 diseases and conditions. If taxpayer dollars are going to be spent on stem cell research, that's where it ought to go.By reversing funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, Pres. Obama is making every American taxpayer complicit in immoral, life destroying research. This is a terrible example of political ideology trumping sound science.

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California High Court Reviews Gay Marriage Ban. Response

Once again there is a promotion of same-sex marriages in California. The battle is ever raging against God's original created design of man and a woman. California High Court Reviews Gay Marriage Ban. Thursday, March 05, 2009.

SAN FRANCISCO — Same-sex marriage advocates are pinning their hopes on California's highest court as it prepares to hear arguments on a trio of lawsuits seeking to overturn the state's voter-approved ban on gay unions.

The promotion of evolution has assisted in creating a societal climate against God's creative purpose of marriage. Cultures have never embraced same-sex marriages publiclly. Why? Because it is an innate understanding that marriage is between males and females. Jesus endorsed the purpose of marriage as being between a man and a woman. Jesus said:

. . .Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? (Matthew 19:5-6)

How does evolution philosophy contribute to same-sex marriage proponents ? Evolution promotes that species have choices to make regarding their environment as they see fit. If their is no moral guidelines in life than homosexuality is a choice based against the moral codes of civilizations past and present and more importantly God himself.

Charles Darwin and Worm Research

I have been reading on the life of Darwin and noticed that discussion is given to Darwin's publication about earthworms. "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, With Observations on Their Habits, published in 1881, sold even better than On the Origin of Species during Darwin's lifetime."

It is interesting that NPR in mentioning this trivia point did not refer to a similar work published almost 100 years earlier. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Published by Gilbert White. (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) White was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.who wrote about the significance of earthworms.

Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm [...] worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them...

Some scholars think Darwin was the first major observer of the benefit of earthworms. in NPR.org's article Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground.by Joe Palca we read:

"At the time when Darwin started looking at the worms, no one appreciated the role they had in agriculture," says Alun Anderson, a journalist who became interested in Darwin's worm work.In fact, Anderson says, in the mid 19th century, most people thought earthworms were pests.

Could it be that because White was a Christian clergyman who held a bias in creationism, his work is ignored? I think so.

Lecture on Charles Darwin by John Martin March 9

At the monthly meeting of the Missouri Association of Creation (MAC) I will be delivering a lecture on Charles Darwin and the Christian Compromise. March 9th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. For directions to this event please visit http://www.gennet.org/

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Obama Chooses Abortion Advocate Kathleen Sebelius

Evolution materialistic philosophy supports the choice of abortion. The undesirable are eliminated in the struggle for Darwinian evolution to occur.

Today President Barak Obama appointed Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services. She just happens to be in the midst of abortion controversy. "As governor, Sebelius saw the abortion rate decline 8.5 percent in Kansas between 2002 and 2007, according to the state's health department." So why are people upset at her?

Kansas-based Operation Rescue said it would launch a full-out campaign against Sebelius because, as governor, she has had the support of Dr. George Tiller, who has been indicted for allegedly performing late-term abortions on underage girls.

The Catholic League "notes on its Web site that the Roman Catholic governor's 'support for abortion is so far off-the-charts that she has been publicly criticized by the last three archbishops of Kansas City.'"

What will happen to America's abortion policies in the next four years? Focus on Kathleen Sebelius.

Information for this post came from: Anti-Abortion Activists Plan to Fight Sebelius' Nomination for HHS. Monday, March 02, 2009.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/02/sebelius-positions-abortion/