Catholics "Sort-of" Back Evolution (originally published November 4)

[NOTE: Before reading this short article, take the time to read the Yahoo! News article that brought it about.]

Is it not obvious what is happening? The Catholic church is afraid to take sides in the creation/evolution issue, so it is conveniently taking both sides. It is truly sad that some who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ directly oppose what He taught.

John 1:1 tells us that Jesus, identified by John as “the Word,” “was God.” He was–and is–divine by His very nature. That divinity necessarily implies eternality. John goes on to say that about Jesus, “He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3-4, NKJV). If anyone should know what happened at the very beginning of time (and, in fact, before) it would be Jesus. He was not only present then, He was the very Creator!

So, what does Jesus say about it? Matthew 19:4-9 is a passage that is often used–and correctly so–to teach about marriage and divorce. There is another phrase in that verse however, than can be overlooked. Jesus said to the Pharisees in verse 4, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female?” (emphasis added) The phrase “at the beginning” comes from a Greek phrase which literally means “at the origin of the extremity of a thing.” If Jesus had known that there were millions or even billions of years from “the beginning” until the advent of man, then why would He say that man has been here since the very origin?

After all, what did Moses, by the inspiration of the Creator, write? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). If God didn’t know when He created everything, then He isn’t God. The Catholic church, and, tragically, many in the Lord’s Church, has many questions to answer about the origin of man.