{"id":595,"date":"2009-01-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doxacommunications.com\/kolbe\/our-lady-and-evolution\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T05:00:00","slug":"our-lady-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/our-lady-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady and Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT<\/p>\n

The human race has not evolved from apes because Our Lady of Lourdes identified herself as, \"the<\/span><\/em><\/strong> immaculate conception\".\u00a0 Before this statement, the possibility of Adam being conceived would have had to be conceded, but in the light of it, Adam, who was certainly immaculate<\/strong> before the original sin, cannot have been conceived<\/strong> since Our Lady is identifying herself as the only creature<\/strong> to have been immaculately conceived. <\/p>\n

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AND NOW A FULLER EXPLANATION<\/p>\n

I'm skeptical of the belief held by many today that the human race has evolved from apes.\u00a0 My skepticism is based on scientific and theological reasons.\u00a0 However, it is in the realm of theology, and private revelation in particular, that I wish to present the following thoughts.<\/p>\n

Paragraph 67 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em> (CCC) says the following about private revelations:<\/p>\n

Throughout the ages, there have been so-called \"private\" revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church.<\/p>\n

I will confine myself to those private revelations which have been recognized by the authority of the Catholic Church.\u00a0 In my amateur musings on the Evolution debate I have become more and more impressed with the evidence against the theory of evolution both from science and theology.\u00a0 Coupled with this, has been a growing interest in some private revelations of Our Lady.<\/p>\n

Bearing in mind the heavy emphasis the Catholic Church has placed on Marian devotion in recent times,<\/p>\n

(eg the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 and the Assumption in 1950; considering private revelations such as:\u00a0 Our Lady of Guadalupe's appearances in 1531 to St Juan Diego leaving a miraculous tilma in Mexico to this day; Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris in 1830 to St Catherine Laboure, whose body remains incorrupt; Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 and the solar miracle witnessed there by 70,000 people)<\/p>\n

and, in the midst of all the confusion that a topic such as evolution throws up,<\/p>\n

(evolution theory pleases the atheist, it gives credence to dialectical materialism, the Communist theory of class struggle depends on the idea of Social Darwinism and its \u2018survival of the fittest', Marx welcomed the writings of Darwin, Engels wrote that exploitation began when the first human hand evolved, Communist governments place strong emphasis on the enforced teaching of evolution in order to eradicate belief in God, both Freud and Jung were greatly influenced by Haekel's fraudulent evolution-based recapitulation theory, many ideologies from Nazism to New Age have been influenced by evolution, not to mention the denial in Church circles of central tenets of the faith such as belief in Adam and Eve and Original Sin because of theories such as evolution - see part 4 of Gerard J. Keane's book Creation Rediscovered<\/em>, 1999, Tan Books)<\/p>\n

I wondered if, as many anti-evolutionists claim, evolution was such a harmful theory, surely Our Lady would have spoken about it explicitly, as she did about Communism (and implicitly evolution) at Fatima in the very same month that the Russian Revolution occurred when she said \"Russia will spread its errors\")?<\/p>\n

Consider these dates:<\/p>\n