A brief history of creationism

The early church's description of the world and the founding process of mankind has never been able to express the scope of the old and new conventions. It is unanimously affirmed that God is the foundation of the world and human beings (DS 2 1, 125,150,800,3002,3025). However, it was not until 1950 that pope pius xii (1939- 1958) admitted that the theory of relative evolution could cooperate with the Catholic faith (DS 3896) in the encyclical "Mankind" (1950). In fact, Catholicism rejects the "doctrine" of evolution, not the "thought" of evolution.

As for the creationism advocated by some fundamentalist Christian sects, they firmly believe that the literal meaning of God's creation in the Bible is truth. Based on today's biblical hermeneutics (see 578), not only Catholicism disapproves of this view, but even the United Presbyterian Church and the Episcopal Church of 1982 have publicly declared that they do not accept it.

Modern theologian K Rana (1904- 1984) believes that in the "participation" of God (see 37), animals "surpassed themselves", so human beings appeared. M Flick (1909- 1979) further divides God's "participation" into three types: ordinary, evolutionary and creative. And J. Moltmann, 1926-) divides God's creation into primitive creation, eternal creation and eschatological creation. These statements all try to explain the infinite God's creation process with limited human thoughts-from matter to biology, from animals to human beings because of its "participation" and guide it to continue to complete.