Ji FU reviewed Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly
A homeschool text book I found theologically challenging
4 stars
It took me like 8 months to finish this, not because it was long, less than 200 pages, nor because it was difficult, it is written with intention to be a homeschool text book. But for me it was extremely challenging. I've been an old earth creationist pretty much my whole life. I bought this thinking I would get more firepower to back up the earth is billions of years old, but only existed thousands of years. When i started it looked kike it to be just another "see Catholics can by evolutionists" . But i found was something forcing me to question some pretty strongly held belief. While I was all for the poking fun at young earth creationists and their "Dude, The Flood" answer for everything. But when she started pulling out the stops on the existence of a worldwide flood at all, and the problems of small …
It took me like 8 months to finish this, not because it was long, less than 200 pages, nor because it was difficult, it is written with intention to be a homeschool text book. But for me it was extremely challenging. I've been an old earth creationist pretty much my whole life. I bought this thinking I would get more firepower to back up the earth is billions of years old, but only existed thousands of years. When i started it looked kike it to be just another "see Catholics can by evolutionists" . But i found was something forcing me to question some pretty strongly held belief. While I was all for the poking fun at young earth creationists and their "Dude, The Flood" answer for everything. But when she started pulling out the stops on the existence of a worldwide flood at all, and the problems of small evolutionary changes by accident.
I also appreciated her honesty related to the Church's treatment of Galileo and the secular world's overblow of what
She did, however, continue to fail on the one point all Evolutionary Catholics do, if there wasn't a literal garden of eaden, how do we account for original sin.
She may have been hinting at it with the idea of asexual chromosomal evolution and large lateral changes maybe being the creation of Adam and Eve, but she didn't actually call it out.