POST VATICAN II

I recently read an interesting book by Philip St. Romain, CATHOLIC ANSWERS

TO FUNDAMENTALISTS' QUESTIONS, published by Liguori Press with the

imprimatur of Edward O'Donnell, Vicar General of St. Louis.

One question was: WHY NOT USE AS OUR MODEL THE THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC

CREATIONISM? Mr. St. Romain replied:

"Space does not permit a comprehensive response to this question.

Suffice it to say the following:

"1. The Genesis account of creation should not be taken literally, owing

to its mythical-literary nature. It is therefore unnecessary to look for

scientific confirmations of its six-day account.

"2. The theory of evolution is supported by data from a number of

scientific disciplines, although many questions remain unanswered.

"3. Scientific creationism is based upon weak and even erroneous bits of

data, and it neglects numerous facts which contradict it.

"4. There is nothing in creation that suggests that the world was

created by only one God, as scientific creationists contend. Nature

religions are generally polytheistic, which points up the indebtedness of

scientific creationism as an a priori conclusion based on Genesis. This is,

at best, very sloppy science!"

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

While the statement by Philip St. Romain might sound at first to be an

avowal of polytheism, it probably is not. He is probably saying that since

primitive religions are mostly polytheistic (which is what he contends), we

must look somewhere else for facts about the beginning of the Universe.

Genesis contends a monotheism which is not consistent with historical data

from natural religions. He is trying to point out a possible dichotomy

between historical scientific creationism and historical religion.

This theory explodes when one realizes that polytheism is a aberration

introduced by Satan in his attempt to dethrone God.

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