Your Questions, Answered
POEM: CREATIVE EVOLUTION
Edmund Pace
When God created us we really knoweth not.
We know, for sure, He took five long days to make
Sun, moon, Earth and seas, plants, animals… the lot
Oak trees, thrushes, tigers, crabs, hill, desert, lake.
One other day spent to craft: a puzzle solved?
His best creation, Man. Ruler of the world.
But man is ape. It can be seen; nay, proved.
Darwin’s dogma so ordains; a helix curl’d.
From primordial soup amino acid; how?
Twenty, more perhaps; to shape the blocks of life
Deoxyribonucleic acid, wow.
Piecemeal revolution rock and roll and jive.
Could both these sculptures of the universe be?
Dilate the days in one: Let it unto He.
From the Fathers of the Church
“For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as a lyre, and adjusting things in the air to things on the earth, and things in the heaven to things in the air, and combining parts into wholes and moving them all by His beck and will, produces well and fittingly, as the result, the unity of the universe and of its order.”
St. Athanasius
QUOTE ON EVOLUTION
“As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvelous Wisdom and Design to have given certain laws to matter millions of ages ago, which have surely and precisely worked out, in the long course of those ages, those effects which He from the first proposed. Mr. Darwin’s theory need not then to be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescence and Skill. Perhaps your friend has got a surer clue to guide him than I have, who have never studied the question, and I do not [see] that ‘the accidental evolution of organic beings’ is inconsistent with divine design—It is accidental to us, not to God.”
John Henry Newman, Letter to J. Walker of Scarborough, May 22, 1868
Links
Protecting Creation Today - Resources from the Global Catholic Climate Movement
The Beginning of Creation - The Big Bang does not rule out faith in God...
FROM LIFE: Protecting Nature – Insights from the Christian and Jewish tradition
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