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.