Catholic Teens - July 19, 2005

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:20:41 -0500, pwxsevere wrote
> Hey All--
>
> Well I went golfing yesterday evening--for the 2nd time ever.
> Needless to say, Tiger Woods has nothing to fear from me. :-) It
> was a nice time though. Any excuse to be outside on a beautiful
> evening.
>
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> Question O' The Week:
>
> So what's the deal with dinosaurs? How does that work with Adam and
> Eve and Creation?
>
> -Dinosaurs did exist. There is no disputing that.
>
> The Bible: Is everything that happened in history in the Bible?
> No. What is? Everything necessary to guide us to salvation, i.e.
> Heaven. Hence, while dinosaurs are fascinating, not knowing
> everything about them will not keep us from getting to heaven.
>
> What does the Church teach about dinosaurs?
> -They existed.
>
> How do we relate that to Adam and Eve?
> -Here's one way of looking at it that makes sense:
> The 7 days of Creastion do not necessarily equate to what we
> consider a "day." The Bible is full of symbolic numbers meant to
> convey deeper truths. Each one of those 7 "days" may have been 10,
> 000 years. And hence, dinosaurs may have pre-dated Adam and Eve.
> After all in Genesis, God creates the beasts of the seas and earth
> BEFORE He creates Adam and Eve.
>
> Whose to say that the dinsaurs didn't die out before God created
> mankind? Would that change anything about God creating everything
> and loving us? Not really.
>
> Points to remember:
> 1. God created everything.
> 2. The Bible contains what we need to know to get to heaven. 3.
> Science helps us to learn about our history.
>
> Sidenote: Archaeologists and geologists have Never Disproven
> anything written in the Bible. In fact, archaeology has often done
> just the opposite and verified what the Bible contains. Now there
> are still many things in the Bible that science has not proven, but
> on the flip side, nothing has ever proven to be wrong historically
> in the Bible. Case in point, geologists are now pointing to
> evidence of a massive flood thousands of years ago on the earth.
> (Noah and the Ark perhaps? :-) ).
>
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> God bless you!
> Phil Lawson
>
> "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may
> live as you wish." --Mother Teresa

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you
wish." --Mother Teresa