Two videos from The Thomistic Institute.
Exhibit A:
Do Catholics Really EAT Jesus? Yes! (Aquinas 101)
The Thomistic Institute | 20 Febr. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BPZ2-pdod8
Yes, I agree.
Exhibit B:
Are Creation and Evolution Compatible? (Aquinas 101)
The Thomistic Institute | 25 Jan. 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_b9tWrFpj4
By 2:55, it is clear, the padre or frayle is pretending the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. He states, if this were compressed to the length of a blockbuster movie, all of human history would last just a fraction of a second.
No, I do not agree.
The video on really eating Jesus, I'll take over Jack Chick's "Death Cookie" any day of the week (but especially Thursday and Lord's Day). Not only is the idea of a fraudster introducing this fraud very implausible given the kind of gullibility it presupposes in even a "Medieval" audience is not one actually found in real life. But John 6 actually has Jesus say what the Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. is citing, and he is using the prooftext correctly. I wonder if he had a grea-great-grand-uncle or even -father in the time of the Napoleonic wars ... if so, the resistance champion would be proud of his descendant, at least as far as Eucharistic theology is concerned.
The video on compatibility of Creation and Evolution, by 2:55 Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. has so blatantly contradicted Mark 10:6, even Kent Hovind (whom I'd absolutely shun in Eucharistic context, as long as he doesn't convert!) is preferrable. Too bad Kent Hovind didn't also get what Jesus was saying in context. I mean, about divorce and remarriage. If you consider man came only at the very last end of created time, you are not a believer in
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Which however a delay of 168 hours or rather less, it poses no such problem.
5230 years, when Jesus spoke, 6 literal days ...
5230 * 365.2425 = 1 910 218 days.
6 / 1 910 218 = 0.0000031410027547
The Blockbuster is presumably at least 90 minutes long. Let's say 120 minutes for good measure. That's 7200 seconds.
7200 * 0.0000031410027547 = 0.02261521983384
Yes, just a fraction of a second. But the difference is, this time the margin is at the beginning of creation, as Jesus claimed it was.
Why 5230 years? Why not 4034 years? I go with the Roman Martyrology for Christmas Day. It's read during Latin Mass. It says about the birth-year of Our Lord:
Anno a creatione mundi, quando in principio Deus creavit caelum et terram, quinquies millesimo centesimo nonagesimo nono
It's based on LXX readings of Genesis 5 and 11. I don't think calling me a Protestant is anything like a safe bet ... unless you add an X- in front of the word.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Vigil of St. Matthias
24.II.2024
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