The Six Days - Old and New - Part 3

Holy Scripture is very clear and emphatic about the fact that creation was finished, and no new things made, after the Six Days, the first week of the world and its history. No such thing as pre-historic ages. That is a myth of the Modernist Evolutionists. (Genesis 2:1 through 4.) Look at it this way: the very same elements of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc..that God created ex nihilo and in toto on Day One of the first week of the world, are the very same elements that now constitute my individual body.

Of course, my elements are but a very small, miniscule portion of those original elements. But the fact remains, my special elements were created on Day One. I like to think - and can so think without fear of heresy - that there is some mysterious and supernatural, (i.e., of Grace) relation between my special, unique and particular number and arrangement, i.e., order, of the elements and that purely spiritual being appointed by God on Day One to be, in time, my own special Guardian Angel. This wonderful, spiritual being received me as his special charge, guardianship, when God infused my soul into this particular arrangement or structure of cells that is my body and they became one substantial form, never to be annihilated! Here we must see the theological - metaphysical and physical Law -  that Form precedes function, that Form precedes or that is, comes before and is absolutely necessary for the operation of all processes. This law of nature leads inexorably and infallibly to the Existence of God - accessible, as Fact, i.e., as Actuality known with absolute certitude by the perception or apprehension of a non-conceptual affirmative judgment of the intellect. It is a simple Yes to the existence of things besides my own self.

But for the evolutionist, all is process. As St. Paul says, this modernist heretic is always learning but never arriving at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Tim. 3:7.) The Truth is Actuality, the Existence (esse) of things - the Form that must come before all processes, because all processes not only presuppose, but absolutely demand and require the actuality - the existence of the Form. The Form, if it is the Substantial Form, is immutable and unchanging in itself. As a physical substance, it has many accidents, or properties, in fact, precisely nine of them: quantity and quality, pre-supposing the Act of Existing. Agency and the disposition of passivity or potency; relatedeness, so necessary for all structures; time, which is the measure of motion and absolutely requires an agent; place, which is a requirement of all physical-corporeal beings; habit, we can translate as environment or habitat, or more accurately, "clothing"; and finally, posture...which I like to translate as the geometry of the elements - the atomic structure as shape.

All of these accidents or properties of some Substantial Form, are what God created in their totality, both potential and actual, on Day One - when He created the Body of the Universe. What is the relationship of these "categories" to the elements of the Periodic Table? I submit that the categories of accidents/properties of the Body of the Universe, help to define and describe the atomic elements and their operations. For example, every atomic unit or element is defined by its atomic number - the number of protons in its nucleus. Thus defines the atomic form as - an accident - and a quantitative entity. Qualities also, while being defined by something other than quantity, nevertheless, have their basis in quantity. Let's see if this is true. It is obvious to most people that sound is based on frequencies, which are quantitative entities. But so also are color, taste, odor and touch, based on the frequencies of the waves or the particles - or both - of some object emitting them and being received by the sense organs of our bodies.

I have just demonstrated what I set out to do! Have you noticed? It is absolutely necessary that there be plants, marine life, birds, land animals and mankind - if - the elements are to have a purpose. Now you may wish to hang all of your objections on that IF, but if you do, what do you accomplish? You simply deny one of those primordial - most basic GIVENS of all reality, GIVENS that are such because they cannot be proven. They are self-evident. We observe them and live by them. That is their PROOF.

 

Darwinism denies Purpose in Nature, and Father Stanley Jaki, O.S.B., spent most of his adult life trying to inject Purpose into Darwinian evolution and thereby "save " it. Did he succeed? Theistic evolutionism is the evidence that he did. However, theistic evolution simply takes on all the problems of the ideology of evolutionism. And they are not only major - but impossible to solve, because evolution is by definition, not only impossible to happen, but physically, metaphysically and theologically ABSURD. Those who really believe it simply demonstrate to the world that they are either mentally deficient or just not thinking. Rather than thinking, they are mindlessly taking the word of modern "science" as the ultimate authority. St. Thomas has something to say about this. Evolutionism is obviously based on purely or merely human reasoning, as a "rational", interpretation of scriptural texts. St. Thomas says that of all arguments in philosophy, those from a human authority are the weakest; whereas arguments from the authority of Divine Revelation are the strongest. (ST, I, q.1, a8, ad.2.)

 

Knowing this, the modernists (notably Fr. Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Kung, in their work on Revelation), set out to put into question - exactly what - and how do we know what, in Holy Scripture, is Divine Revelation and what is human authority or the philosophy of the time? This very question was an attack on Tradition, which never made such a division in the first place. But Pope Pius XII obliged them by writing Divino Afflante - on literary form and they promptly reduced Genesis 1-11 to Eastern Mythological genre. But their literary theory was seriously flawed. It was not based on the Aristotelian concept of Form at all. It was NOT based on the Traditional - classical literary theory of Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, but rather upon modern, post-Renaissance theories of genre, that is, historically relevant and conditioned concepts or the zeitgeist and by 19th century "nature" philosophy. It stressed the "intention of the author", - something impossible to know with any certitude. Milton's Paradise Lost - is a good example. The poet announces his "intention" to justify the ways of God to men" - but the poem comes off as a magnificently - architectonic, aesthetic structure - despite many weaknessess in the "joints". 
 

But Holy Scripture is another case altogether. As Divine Revelation, it completely transcends all literary categories. And yet, I submit it may best be described as a Divine Rhetoric - employing at the same time, recognizable literary forms - the most notable being historical narrative, prayers and wise sayings, as proverbs.

The Six Days: Old and New - Part 2

Meanwhile, I believe we must work while it is still daylight - because when night comes, no one can work! Modern man has falsified this saying of Our Lord - or at least so it seems, because, due to electricity, he has turned night into day, and even doing violence to his created nature, he forces himself to earn money - 24 hrs a day! This kind of violence to the created nature of things is - I submit - the real evil that E. Michael Jones and others should be lamenting. As it is, they fail to expose the real evil - which is a technology based on the false ideology of evolutionary progress. It implies, following the new system of Sir Francis Bacon, that all "progress" is intrinsically good if it "benefits mankind". It fails to recognize that some goods are only seemingly, or apparently good. They are not really good, which is to say, according to the Order of Creation. There is all of moral theology - which must always look upward to the higher sciences of dogma and doctrine in the Order of Creation: the Metaphysics of the Cosmos and Theology. All of this strongly implies what I would like to be able - fully to demonstrate, namely: the physical, metaphysical and theological necessity for the literal Six Days of Genesis One.

The Book of Foundations, Genesis, especially chapters 1-3 and then, for history, 1-11, simply must be taken literally if we are to keep in touch with Reality. Now what is absolutely necessary about this First Law is, that all the matter that ever was or ever will be in existence, was created by God on Day One of the First Week of the World! And this First Day was the First Day of all Time. Time began with the first instant of this First Day. It is absolutely impossible that all the matter/energy of the Universe should or could be created over the eons of time - postulated by the evolutionists. In the case of their scenario, matter is still being created and destroyed - in violation of their own First Law. But matter/energy, in however great or small an amount, without the Form of some Being, is but a mathematical abstraction. If all the matter/energy of the Universe is contained in an existing Body, it is not only possible - but absolutely necessary that it be that of a Body created whole and entire - in its total Substantial Being, and that it be a finite being with Time as one of its necessary properties. This is exactly what God has revealed in Genesis One.

In the Beginning (Time) - God created the Heaven(s) and the Earth. And the Earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: "Be light made." And light was made. And God saw the light - that it was good, and He divided the light from the darkness. And He called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning, One Day. (Genesis 1:1-5.) The first five verses of Genesis One tell us all that God did on Day One, the first day of the world, the very same Day-time when History began.

And does not Our Divine Lord relate Himself as God - directly to this First Day of all days, Day One, when He says in the person of St. John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him, was made nothing that was made." (John 1:1-3) Then in the same Gospel, Chapter 8, Our Divine Lord identifies Himself to the wicked Pharisees who asked: "Who art Thou?" Jesus said to them: "The Beginning Who speak unto you"...And later on, to these same unbelieving Pharisees: "Amen, Amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am" (John 8:25 and 58). Of course, when He says "I am" - He is identifying Himself with the Father and the Holy Spirit, who said to Moses: "I am Who am" (Exodus 3:14) Nor should we omit the powerful testimony of St. Paul in Colossians, speaking of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ:

"Who is the Image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For in Him were all things created...in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him. And He is before all, and by Him, all things endure. And He is the Head of the Body, the Church, who is the Beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things, He may hold the primacy" ...(Colossians, 1:15-19)

And I cannot refrain here from quoting the Collect for the Ninth Prophecy of the Easter Vigil:

 

"Almighty and eternal God, Who art wonderful in the dispensation of all Thy Works, let thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed, understand that the creation of the world in the beginning - WAS NOT A MORE EXCELLENT THING THAN THE IMMOLATION OF CHRIST ON PASSOVER AT THE END OF TIME.."
 

(Page 600 in the 1951 edition of the St. Andrew Daily Missal, with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts.) 
 

The Ninth Prophecy is Exodus 12:1-11, an elaborate direction on how to prepare and consume the Paschal Lamb. How have the modernists missed such an evident downplaying of Creation in comparison with the Immolation of the real Lamb of God on the Cross? But I must return to the purpose of these last papers which is to demonstrate the physical, metaphysical and theological necessity for the Six Days of Genesis One as literal - 24 hour Days constituting the first week of the world and thus re-inforcing Exodus 20: 9 &11.

 

But I see that I can return to my main purpose by answering the question I just posed. The reason why...though there are several - but I suggest the main reason is exactly the answer Hugo of St. Victor gave when he said that the two most important and indispensable events in the history of the world - or that all of history revolves around these two events - Creation and the Incarnation. These two events - really, each is a sum of Acts -- are complete in themselves. This means that Creation is a complete event, although continued by transmission of Substantial Forms in the Order of Generation, and the Incarnation as one infinite Act begun at the Annunciation and completed at the Ascension, but continuing in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - the Great Immolation as the collect specifies.

 

Now in both of these infinite acts - Creation and Incarnation - it is the completed act and its continuation in time - still as Act - that is most significant. It is the Unchanging Act as Form that continues - while in the Order of Generation, minor changes occur, but all the while - the Order of Creation, given in the Six Days - all Six of them - is preserved intact and un-changed.

Sadly, Dr. Tam seems unaware that all the suffering and evil has its one and only ultimate source in the original sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve, just as narrated in the third chapter of Genesis.

            The effects of sin in our bodies, in the Earth’s topography and even in the cosmos, are incalculable, but will all come into the light of the truth some day. 

            (See the writer’s comments on the Collect for the ninth Prophecy of the Easter Vigil and the second Offertory prayer at Mass.)  Next, I must—again—take issue with Editor Michael Matt and his insistence that Pope Benedict’s “Summorum Pontificium changed everything . . . and young Catholics are flocking back to Tradition” (p. 2).  He goes on to assent that “The word traditionalist only means a Catholic who has added or subtracted nothing to or from what it always means to practice the Catholic faith . . . .”

            Now, Mr. Matt, Dr. Tam’s letter proves that an awful lot has been both added to and subtracted from what Catholics believed and practice up until, let us say, at least to 1633 when the Copernican belief was pronounced “formally heretical” as to Earth’s orbiting the sun and at least “erroneous in faith” as to its supposed diurnal motion.

            The popularization of the Copernican hypothesis into the minds of believing Christians (not just Catholics) caused incalculable confusion, as the literature of the Renaissance attests.  Sorry, I cannot quote from memory the famous poem of Anglican John Donne exactly, but the “new philosophy calls all in doubt” is close enough.  Notice Donne refers to the cosmology as philosophy.  That’s because the believing mind at that time, in the end of the “Age of Faith,” could not envision, and rightly so, a cosmology, nor even the natural sciences as a whole, at odds with the doctrines of Faith.

            It is not only abnormal but perverse to think that “science” can contradict “reason” or “faith”; and yet, Catholics today have so distorted a view of both faith and reason, that contradictions such as those of evolution and creation are not only tolerated but embraced and exalted as does his Eminence Christoph Cardinal Schonborn in his book Creation and Evolution.

            And this, despite the ever growing mountains of empirical evidences in support of Romans 1:20 and 2 Peter 3, to mention only two scriptural references in support of Genesis 1-11.

Surely, they are “willfully ignorant,” and that is St. Peter’s judgment, not mine (thought I must add mine to it).

            Finally, there are just two points in the article by esteemed Catholic creationist Peter Wilders that I submit are perhaps not quite as clear as we would wish.  These two points are 1) Creation is not a miracle; and 2) the necessity for secondary causes plus the need to be clear about them vis a vis Creation.

            Creation is not to be compared with Our Lord’s miracle at Cana or with any other miracle, however stupendous.  The reason, most simply put, is that all miracles, while requiring the power of God, also presupposes God’s acts of Creation ex nihilo and in toto of the entire natural Order of things, an order which all miracles temporarily suspend or interrupt or in the same way contravene.

            When Moses, by the power given him by God and by God working through Moses, using Moses as His agent or secondary cause, made the waters of the Red Sea to stand up as a wall on either side of a roadway through which the Israelites passed, the normal and natural law which governs the flow of water and which natural law was created most probably on Day Three.  The miracle at the Red Sea obviously presupposed the entire natural order which includes all laws governing the behavior of water.  (I cannot resist referring here to the landmark and classic work, Universal Water by Wes Marin. One does not agree, obviously, with his many atheistic/naturalistic views, but one cannot question his purely scientific (science as certain knowledge) descriptions of the atomic structure and natural laws that govern this most amazingly versatile molecule.”

            Similarly, when Our Lord changed the “substance” of water (H20) into the substance of wine (look up the formula), this miracle, in order for there to be a miracle, presupposes that in the original order of creation established during the first Six days of the first week of the world, Bod created the substances of substantial forms that are unable to transmute, one into the other, by any natural process.

            I am glad Mr. or Dr. Wilders made this comparison because it is causing me to articulate once more my cosmological theory of the universe as the first substantial form and the first secondary cause.

The Six Days: Old and New

In St. Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 9, verses 16 and 17, Our Divine Lord is answering the Pharisees, who had rebuked the disciples for not observing certain fasts. "And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth into an old garment. For it taketh away the fullness thereof from the garment, and then is made a greater rent. Neither do they put new wine into old bottles, otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved."

But when we come to Chapter 13, we find a series of parables about the Kingdom of Heaven and the End of the World, when the Angels go out to "separate" the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They said to Him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore, every scribe, instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure - new things and old. (Matt. 13:49-51.)

Are we justified in seeing these latter "new things and old", as comparable to the new cloth patched onto an old garment and the new wine put in old bottles of Chapter 9? I submit that the metaphors in Chapter 9, in the way they are presented with no reference to the absent householder's Treasury, will describe what the modernists tried to do with their reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Just one or two examples must suffice for my present purposes:

New patches from the Jewish rituals were inserted in the Offertory Prayers of the Tridentine Mass, effectively destroying thereby, both new and old. For a long time, also, the substitution of pro omnia for pro multis - has threatened the very validity of the form for the consecration. Similarly, the removal of the Mysterium fidei - outside the form is offensive to Tradition-minded priests and people, not to mention the conversion of these words into some kind of antiphonal exchange between priest and people. This new "patch" on the old garment persists to rend and tear the sacred fabric. When Pius the XII restored the Easter Vigil, why did he not insist on restoring all twelve of the traditional prophecies, for never was their literal, historical meaning so needed as it is today! In sum, the "restored" liturgy is an old garment - even currently being continually torn by the new patches added, as in the obnoxious "Prayers of the Faithful" - as if the collects as prayers of Holy Mother Church Herself, were not sufficient! Since when were we lay people equal in holiness to the Holy Spirit, Who inspires and guides the liturgical forms of Her Worship?

However, I am certain that the time will come when God and Our Lady will raise up men who will bring forth new things and old from the Treasury of the Church which is always present in Her Tradition, even whilst it may be hidden and seem to be lost forever. Not so this Deposit of Faith. The enemy of souls would like it to be so. But he is already defeated. And the Treasure remains, though hidden, even under the Rock that is St. Peter. Such are the old things that never change because of their Substantial Form. But then, too, there are the new actualizations of accidental forms always present in potentia, even while limited by the Form. This great potential source is, I submit, the Prime Matter of the Scholastics, but now seen more clearly as the Material Cause of the Body of the Universe.

Take, for example, the First Law of Thermodynamics. The standard model admits that matter/energy is neither created nor destroyed. This must mean that the amount or quantity of matter/energy was fixed for all time when it was first created, that is on Day One of Creation Week. But St. Thomas was fully aware of this First Law. He said: "All the creatures of God in some respects, continue forever, at least as to matter, since what is created will never be annihilated, even though it be corruptible...." (ST, I, q.65, a1, ad 1.) St. Thomas goes on to admit the substantial changes in the four ancient elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, which he and all the Medievals, following Aristotle, considered to be Substantial Forms.

 

However, if we follow clues given by Blessed Hildegaard of Bingen, as interpreted by Dr. Robert Sungenis in his second volume of Galileo Was Wrong..., we can, and, I believe, without doing violence to the medieval, Aristotelian view, reduce the four elements to their atomic constituents, and seeing them as one, we also see them as accidental formalities of some much larger and truly Substantial Form in which they all inhere. This great material substance is the Body of the Universe, the first of all Substantial Forms created by God on Day One of the First Week of the World. It is also, the first of all Secondary Causes - because by the created agency of its Form, it produces, under God's Primary Efficiency, all the Substantial Forms of the plant and animal kingdoms - even as to man's body - though not his soul, which must of necessity, be directly created by God, since it is rational - immortal and spiritual.
 

Thus, accommodating the four ancient Elements to the established reality of the atomic structure of matter/energy, we have brought forth both old and new things from the Treasure of our intellectual inheritance - which is an integrally necessary part of the Deposit of Faith. It is necessary, because Grace builds upon nature - even as Faith presupposes Reason and perfects it. Today we suffer under a very incomplete and severely distorted view of Reality. And this is due, I would say, entirely to the Heresy of evolutionary Modernism - as described and condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili (1907). No one has yet had the courage - or the enlightened vision, to see that the Second Vatican Council was completely motivated, and thus permeated, by the so-called evolutionary "law" of change or go extinct! But the Fathers of Vatican Two had obviously lost the divine Catholic Faith that tells us infallibly that the Church founded by Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ can never go extinct, nor ever be destroyed or overcome by the forces of Hell. Like her Master, she may well be crucified, put to death and buried for a time - but it is certain that She - like Him and with Him, will rise again......
 

To be continued....

Factions In The Church Today

Left                                                                                                          
 
LIberal and Modernist                                    
Anti Deposit Of Fatih

National Catholic Reporter
and Ignatius Press

All are Evolutionist and Copernican
Also Teilhardian

EWTN - A mixed bag of Left and Right
Complicit by Silence



The Deposit of Faith


Necessarily includes the Truths of Faith
and of Reason
BecauseTruth is One
Supernatural Order of Divine Grace,
Builds Upon & Presupposes the Order of
Nature
Natural Order - The Order of Creation
Genesis One
Also Initiates the Order of Generation



Right

Conservative, but mostly Copernican

Traditionalists, Lefevbrites
All For the Latin Mass
FSSP and the SSPX

Far Right
SSPV and Feeneyites,
also Sedevecantists

Traditionalists became deeply influenced
by evolutionary Modernism
Complicit by their Silence


Evolutionary Modernism today has replaced
the Natural Order, thus also distorting the
Supernatural Order

Concerning April 2013 Issue of "The Remnant"

 The current (April 15) issue of the Remnant newspaper is so full of contradictions calling out for resolutions that it seems to this subscriber to attempt, even at the risk of being deemed presumptuous in the extreme, some kind of suggested resolution, will be a real act of charity—at least so intended.

This writer is 87 years old and resides in a nursing home due to multiple infirmities requiring all the usual big and little pharmaceutical and nursing ministrations not available to one living alone.

   However, despite the loss of my reference library, I still have at hand some necessary reference books, such as the Summa, and, mirabile dictu, my memory seems to retain the habit of principles which I feel obliged to share if and when the opportunity presents itself, such as the present issue of the Remnant.

I am sending these words to the wonderful friend who types them for the Blog (a most mysterious technological tool!) rather than to the Remnant Speaks forum because there, unfortunately, I have not hope of a hearing. And perhaps not much more from the Blog, but one does what one can!

   Dr. Edwin Tam of British Columbia, Canada, gives us what is perhaps the most common and also most firmly entrenched view of current evolutionary ideology’s predominance in the realm of the natural sciences that one could hope to find. And it is very well articulated.

   But it is based on lies! On what evidences do I say such a thing? On two bases: 1) that of empirical science, and 2) that of Faith, that is, based on Divine Revelation. Read 2 Peter, chapter 3) As for number 1, if Dr. Tam is not “willfully ignorant” then he must read the May issue of Acts and Facts plus, the most thorough RATE study of the Institute for Creation Research. These studies prove that the Earth cannot possibly be more than 10,000 years old! Add to this, for the age of the Universe, the landmark study of Thomas Barnes on the decline of the Earth’s magnetic field. The results of this study are incorporated and updated in Dr. John Morris’s book The Young Earth, available from ICR and in the monthly Acts and Facts.

   The men writing these books and articles are all highly credentialed scientists. I must add the work of Dr. Walt Brown whose periodically updated and encyclopedic book, In the Beginning, is a necessary supplement to the Flood geology of the men at ICR.

   It is one of the major crimes of omission committed by Catholics at least since the first decades of the twentieth century that they allow “ the faithful” to reduce Genesis 1-11 to Eastern myth, merely refined into allegory by Moses, when in reality, as St. Peter affirms, the Deluge of Noah’s time was a worldwide punishment with not only unmistakable effects in the Earth’s crust, but also in cosmic changes in our atmosphere and beyond.

   Start with The Genesis Flood by Whitcomb and Morris (1961) and now updated by Australian Andrew Snelling in a two-volume study of Earth’s Catastrophic Past.

   You see, authors like Dr. Tarn have an awful lot of homework to do before they can make amends for such mindless statements as those he makes in his letter. And yet, sad to say, it is probably quite representative. He might want to start with Dr. Morris’s book on the Grand Canyon. Please consult the ICR website and their publication. They are doing what Catholics should be doing. As a result of Catholic negligence and lack of Faith in Biblical inerrancy, these Protestant Creationist are so far advanced in a real Creation science, meaning empirical evidences for catastrophe in the fossil record—that Catholics will never be able to catch up, but will necessarily have simply to incorporate the real-time science as already discovered by these dedicated scientists, into our Catholic science supporting our metaphysics and philosophical theology.

   By the way, too, there is only one philosophy, if by this philosophy we mean to include metaphysics which gives us the basic principles absolutely necessary for all knowledge as certitude. Consult the works of Dominican Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and lay Thomist par excellence Etienne Gilson.

All Truth

 

When He, the spirit of Truth is come, He will teach you all truth. (John 16:13)

I submit that this is the Deposit of Faith - the synthesis of all truth - that alone can confront, refute and replace the "synthesis of all Heresies" - that is evolutionary modernism, as described, defined and condemned by Pope St. Pius X in 1907 in his encyclical Pascendi and Syllabus Lamentabili. It was very early on - explicated by the Fathers and Doctors who wrote Treatises on the Six Days of Creation - the Hexaemera, from St. Augustine and St. Ambrose to St. Lawrence Brindisi and Suarez in the 17th century. The Deposit of Faith is there from the beginning at Pentecost - when the Holy Spirit - the Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth, came and "deposited" - if one may speak so crudely of His Divine Action - all the truths of Faith and of Reason. For Truth is one and while the Truths of Faith transcend those of Reason - at the same time the Truths of Faith rest upon and perfect and fulfill the potentia obedientialis -- the potency or sufficient capacity for Faith that Reason by its natural structure possesses - having been given when God created mankind in Adam and Eve, in His own Image and Likeness. (Genesis 1:26-27)

This unity of truth also requires and attests to the absolute necessity for the literal truth of the Six Days as the first week of the world (Exodus 20) - not just of human history, but of all history, of the entire natural order. On Day One through Day Six, we have established for all time, the order of Creation - which guarantees the stability and immutability of the substantial forms, created on Days One, Three - Five and Six. When the forms were once established by God's transcendent - atemporal Act of Creation - the processes within those forms began to function - thereby initiating the Order of Generation. Plants, for example, once their substantial form was created on Day Three, then began the process of photosynthesis - continuing to this day. Chickens, created on Day Five - or Day Six, (it is for the biologists to determine) began to lay eggs and roosters to fertilize them to fulfill God's command to "Increase and multiply" - and so on.

The work of the Six Days was necessarily literal, you can see from Genesis One, God's Word is not denied or tampered with, as Scott Hahn and his predecessors and followers do, without impunity, which is to say, without terrible retribution, i.e., punishment, to follow.

Kyrie, Eleison!

 

A Synthesis of All Truths

 

A synthesis of all truths is necessary to counter and obliterate the synthesis of all heresies and errors that is evolutionary modernism - as described and condemned by Pope St Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili.

The biblical commission in the time of Pope St Pius X - ruled that the Hebrew word for day (yom) - may be taken, in Genesis One, to signify either,

A literal - 24 hour day --- or a certain period of time.

Scholars have proven that whenever scripture uses the word yom (day) - with numeral or other specification of time, it means a literal twenty-four hour day. In Genesis One, the word day is specified as One, as the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. It is also specified - by an evening and a morning. There can be no doubt, then, that the days of Genesis One are literal - 24 hr days - re-inforced in Exodus 20, as the first week of the world and the fixed pattern of time for all time to follow. The option given by the Biblical Commission is not a representative of the Church's mission to teach the truth - because both of these options cannot be true - only one can be true. It must be the one indicated most clearly by the words of Holy Scripture. And, indeed, all the physical sciences, with metaphysics and theology - all indicate the necessity for this literal acceptance of the Six Days of Genesis One.

It is necessary, as St. Thomas demonstrates, the order of the Universe requires unity and the unity of the universe = one world = requires the timeless production by God's transcendent Creative Act - so that form precedes function, as it must, and act precedes process.

See former preceding papers.

 

Attention Catholic Scientists - Part 2

But the scientists - very much need to do more studies of the inter-relations amongst the parts of the universe that are of the inanimate realm. What, for example, is the relation of the Earth's magnetic field with the so-called Higgs field? There is much too much isolation of the particles from their function in the real world - if any such function really exists!

Let me now quote some sentences from the Hirsch-Pas-Porod article in an effort to bring together my main points.

"Most elementary particles gain their mass by interacting with the ubiquitous Higgs field.... the long sought Higgs boson. That boson is the particle counterpart to the Higgs field, just as the photon is the counterpart to the electromagnetic field. (pg.43-44)

I suggest, and my Cosmology requires, that the electromagnetic spectrum, created on Day One of Creation Week, the first Week of the World, be the quantitative basis for all mass, and also for the qualitative properties of light, also based in the electromagnetic spectrum. All quantities are found in the quantities of the atomic structures, as recorded in the electromagnetic spectrum. The giver, or supplier - and also the controller and limiting factor for all quantities and qualities and the particles that are measured and manifest their qualities.....all these accidental activities by the secondary agencies created by God on Day One and given by God to His created Secondary Causes, Himself always remaining and in Act as the Primary Efficient and Final Cause of all things - all these accidental and secondary agencies, quantities and qualities, receive their power and character from the Substantial Form of the Body of the Universe. The Substantial Form, with its Co-Principle and Co-Cause - which is Prime Matter, performs for the entire universe - the same kind of function that the DNA molecule performs for the plant and animal kinds.

In this quote from Hirsch, Pas, and Porod, the scientists are rightly noting the distinct and real difference between quantitatively based matter and qualitatively based matter, between the atomic structures and the non-atomic photon-based light.  Here is a quotation from the authors - which plainly shows that their research is seeking something false.  They search for "pathways" by which things evolved to their present orderly state.  This is not only futile but ridiculous.  All of reality proclaims that things have been perfect in their forms from the beginning.  The processes observable now are the proper functions for each form.  In other words, each thing has a proper form with its own proper functions from the beginning.  Evolutionary pathways do not and never did exist.  Here is what Hirsch-Pas-Porod say: 

 

"All plausible explanations for the neutrino's meager masses point to unexplored realms of physics."  (p.44)

 

Comment:  Yes!  Exactly!  And that unexplored realm is the realm of Catholic Cosmology, which is governed by the Aristotelian-Thomistic Metaphysics and Theology. 

 

The authors continue:  "Yet one of those explanations, the seesaw mechanism, may also bear on the mystery of how matter came to reign over anti-matter - a triumph that enabled the formation of cosmic structure and ultimately, the development of life." (p.44) 

 

Comment:  With this so-called seesaw mechanism, the authors pass from reality into the realm of pure science-fiction. Life did not develop.  Living forms, the first of which were the plants, were directly created - as perfect and fully functional forms - just as described in Genesis 1:9-13.

 

Until scientists completely abandon searching for all such fictional pathways as are dictated by their false ideology, they will continue to invent ad hoc mechanisms and "explanations" - to deceive a gullible public, and cause many souls to lose their faith in God and in His Church. 

 

Kyrie, eleison!

Attention Catholic Scientists! - Even Stephen Barr and Especially Father Robert Spitzer.S.J.

As in previous issues, the April 2013 issue of Scientific American contains an article on physics that cries out for the light of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysical principles - which alone can supply those unifying forces the modern cosmologist needs. The opening title sentence of the article, beginning on page 41, describes: "Ghostly Beacons of New Physics: Neutrinos, the Strangest Beasts in the Particle Zoo, may soon open the way to unexplored realms." By Martin Hirsch, Heinrich PAS and WERNER PoRod. Those "unexplored realms" can be nothing more nor less than the structural harmony and physical unity of the full Order of Creation - revealed in the first chapter of Genesis. And in Chapter two and three - God reveals the cause of all our sufferings....the wounds received by every created being as a result of the Original Sin of our First Parents, Adam and Eve, plus the establishment of the Eternal Enmities with the Promised Redemption and Final Victory of the Divine Son of God, by means of His Immaculate Mother - who crushes the head of the infernal serpent. The Psalmist compares the Divine Redeemer-Bridegroom to the Sun, who gives the light of Truth and the Fiery Heart of Love to humanity. We may note also, in stark contrast, that the fallen Angel, Lucifer, works tirelessly, until the world's End, to spread the Darkness of his lies against the Truth and the Hellish heat of his hatred against God and all the children of Mary, God's Mother and ours, who live by Love. 

At present, most modern scientists, including Catholics like Stephen Barr and Father Spitzer, labor tirelessly in the Darkness of the Evolutionary Worldview. What I am about to suggest, tentatively, and for your consideration, is based on my major premise here - which is that the Universe is a hylemorphic reality or entity, meaning that it is composed of matter and form. In the case of the Universe, the matter is the Prime Matter or First Matter of the Scholastics. This means that it is both a Cause and a Principle - but never as either without its collaborative and co-operative Cause and Principle - which is Form.

Now, to get down to the empirical level of modern particle physics. Prime Matter is the First and mathematically greatest or largest pool or source of all possible, all potentialities capable of attaining some form of existence. Now we know that God is all Act. There is no potency in Him. So, there is never any way to identify God with Prime Matter. At the same time, we must say that God knows all things, even the possible of Prime Matter. But He knows them as actual. This does not mean that they are destined to become actual in time. All that depends upon God's Will. And remember, too, that what man may deem possible, may not be so in God's Knowledge. For example, for an ape or ape-like creature to become a man is no more possible than for a circle to become a square or for a chicken to become a dinosaur. Chickens are birds. Dinosaurs are reptiles. And circles are curved, whereas squares are straight-lined. The Act of Faith proclaims: I believe all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church believes and teaches - because Thou hast revealed them Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived. God would deceive us if Genesis taught one thing and Nature taught us something entirely different. But, Nature proclaims the Truth of Divine Revelation - even when men deny it. But back to the neutrinos.


First of all, the modern physicist is certain that it exists, because it has been observed, that is "detected" - even though detecting it requires "great effort and experimental ingenuity." (p.42) Neutrino's, then, may be in the realm of probability or mere theory, rather than real existence. But for the sake of Cosmology, let us assume they do exist! And in their favor, it is certain that if they do exist, they are to be classified as leptons, that is, a variety of electrons. They differ from the electron, however, in being electrically neutral - whereas electrons are negatively charged - and secondly, they do not form a part of any atomic structure - whereas the electron is an essential component of the atom. Like the electron, neutrinos are leptons in the class of fermions, as opposed to bosons. The difference between fermions and bosons has to do with the mathematics of their spin, and does not directly concern my cosmology, (or if it does, I am ignorant of it, as I may well be). But what does concern my Catholic cosmology - is the fact that neutrinos are particles that function apart from any atomic structure. They also belong to a class, the fermions, that along with the bosons are distinguished from photons, which are the fundamental particles of light and relate to the electromagnetic spectrum. At the same time, the electromagnetic force is a force that affects both fermions and bosons, because light penetrates all forms of matter. The most basic distinction amongst all the accidental forms of the substantial form of the Body of the Universe would seem to be, then, that between matter and light - although light is a special qualitative form of matter - light cannot be reduced to any one specific quantity as can all the atoms. And neutrinos have mass - which can be measured, even though it is said to be so near zero-mass as not to be measurable. At the same time, the fact that it is near zero - but not zero - shows that it is still matter and not spirit. Measurability is the criterion of a material form. Spiritual forms, such as the Angels and the human soul, are not measurable at all - because they are not composed of parts. They are absolutely simple and have no mass. Only material forms are complex - even when this complexity might begin at the lowest level of matter and form - those particles - whose mass is so near zero - as to be unmeasurable. This is said of the neutrino, especially of the muon and tau varieties.


Handedness or chirality is also a property of all particles. Hirsch, Pas and Porod explain that a particle must be left-handed to react to the beta force responsible for radio-active "decay" or emission. Neutrinos react only to the force of gravity (thought to be the weakest of the four forces) - and to the weak beta force of radioactive decay. The scientists believe that a right-handed neutrino "would be impervious - even to the weak force." (p.43) The biggest question for the modern physicist, however, is from whence do these ultimate, fundamental particles derive their mass? Mass is a body's measurable quantity of matter. And any body's quantity of matter will be determined by the nature of the body's matter-form relationship. When one considers that both the elephant and the mouse are classified as mammals, then weight by quantity of matter may not be very helpful in the determination of a being's nature.
At the level of the smallest fundamental particles, however, it is extremely important. And the authors Hirsch, Pas and Porod take us from this consideration directly into the question of anti-matter and dark matter.
 

I suggest that antimatter and dark matter are nothing but the shadow cast by a body when light shines upon it at any one of the many possible angles, from noon to noon. But the real question is from whence all particles receive not only their mass, but everything else that defines their existential essence. The first thing to note is that matter never exists without some degree of form. And so, to speak of matter as if it existed alone and in some kind of hypothetical, fictional realm of semi-or pseudo-being, is counter-productive, to say the least. What the modern physicist needs most of all, is a good definition and descriptive application of Prime or Primary First Matter in relation to its Substantial Form. Now, since we are saying Prime, that is, First Matter, we must be talking about what God created first of all, insofar as He has deigned to reveal that to us, - Genesis says: 
 

In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.

And the earth was void and empty - and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the waters.

And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

And God saw the light - that it was good, and He divided the light from the darkness. And He called the light - Day, and the darkness, - Night. And there was evening and morning, one Day. (Genesis, 1:1-4.)

 

The matter created on this Day One, included the heavens, the earth, the waters, and light. The form of this matter is clearly indicated by the making of the succession of the light, or the movement of the light - so as to cause the following of Night upon the Day in a circuit. This first day, then, really had no specified morning until light was made. And I am suggesting that the light was made from the Primary Matter created in the heavens, earth and water. And I believe we should see all of these elements as coming into existence from nothing, (ex nihilo) and in their whole substance, as Lateran IV in 1215 has it, simultaneously. This whole substance, I suggest, indicates that the Substantial Form - that is the Body of the Universe, and includes as its material cause (or "Matter"), the Prime Matter, the Material cause with the Substantial, Formal Cause of the Body of the Universe. This is the wholeness specified by the Council, Lateran IV, of which the members of the Kolbe Center - rightly make so much. 
 

But what exactly, does this Prime Matter mean? 
 

Well, for one thing, it supplies the mass for all existing particles. It contains the so-called Higgs boson, which is said to do for "matter" what the photon does for light. (p.43). The photon is the carrier for light! Therefore, the Higgs boson must be a kind of material support for matter-particles. But, all these entities are but accidental forms of some larger and much more important Substance. That Substance is the Form of all these material particles -- the Body of the Universe, spherical and hierarchical. Matter is a principle of Potency as Form is the principle of Actuality or Existence. Both of these Principles are also Causes. Therefore, the Body of the Universe, as composed of both these Principles and Causes is the actualizing, governing, controlling and limiting Source - under God and directly under His power as Creator of Day One - of all that goes on amongst the particles that so fascinate and even obsess, the modern physicists.

Fatima and Evolutionary Modernism

I have been praying to Our Blessed Lady for the last several years for light to see the connection between the heresy of evolutionary modernism and Her words at Fatima - especially those concerning the consecration of Russia and the conditional chastisements. We know that all of Our Lady's apparitions manifest the profound unity of the Proto-Evangelium of Genesis 3:15 with that of Apocalypse 12:1. She is always the Woman Clothed with the Sun - crowned with 12 stars - the moon under Her feet - and Her head crushing the head of the serpent - destroying all heresies! She has been appointed by her Son, God Himself, to be the primary enemy of Lucifer. She is the Queen of the Angels, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, whom he, Lucifer, refused to honor as Mother of the Incarnate Word. And so, he was cast down into Hell - which was created just for him and his followers. From thence, the eternal enmities of Genesis 3:15 - draw souls to each his own side, for heaven or for hell, and Lucifer lies in wait for that final battle and his own ultimate defeat. 

 

Because of their unitive connections with the Divine Revelation, Divine and Public - it seems certain and obvious that these revelations of Our Lady of Fatima to the three children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, must be something more than merely "private" revelations that we are free to disregard as not of divine Catholic faith. They are not on an equal footing, for example, of those of Anna Catherine Emmerich, or Maria Valtorta, or even of the Venerable Mary of Agreda, although the evangelization of the American Indians by this latter "Lady in Blue" was certainly public. But from Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 to Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, the iconography is strikingly biblical: Sun, Moon, Stars, and the serpent crushed! As public as Holy Scripture!

 

But does this demonstrate a unitary connection with the evolutionary world view, and the consecration of Russia to Mary's Immaculate Heart - a unity of Cause and Effect? I suggest, at least tentatively, for the present, and for your consideration, that certain causes in the evolutionary world view and its inherent - though essentially irrational - rationalism , are at least indirectly responsible for the denial of Our Lady's prerogatives due to Her Divine Maternity. That Mary was a virgin before, during and after the Birth of Christ - is given no definite note of theological certitude (see Ott, p.201-202), but it is certainly a dogma of tradition and the Ordinary Magisterium. However, I have met more than one Sister who was taught by the so-called "New Theology" - (and now New Evangelization??) that Mary suffered all the normal pains and blood-letting that were inflicted upon Eve as part of the punishment for her sin, (see Genesis 3:16). But this position would deny that Mary is the Second Eve - even as Our Lord is the Second Adam! And thus cancel out the whole of our Redemption! And astoundingly enough, in his homily at the Mass for his Inauguration as Pope, the new pontiff discussed at some length - the different types of protections that the great St. Joseph exercised as spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Among them was protecting Her at the time of Her "giving birth." This was an excellent opportunity for His Holiness as Supreme Teacher of the Church, to emphasize the divine prerogatives of Mary - stemming from Her Divine Maternity, particularly the miraculous nature of Christ's Birth, coming forth from Her virginal body as He came forth from the tomb at the resurrection. But Pope Francis missed this great opportunity. He simply said of Her "giving birth" - nothing else. I wept!

 

In a similar way, he mentioned all the other things that we, like St. Joseph, are called upon to protect - among them - "Creation." Another missed opportunity! And even worse, because it amounted to reducing the truly Creative Acts of God in the beginning of Time, during Six Literal Days, to - "the environment"?! Yes, this is what Creation now means: we must protect the environment because it is God's creation! This is truly a Green Pope! Our Divine Lord said, more than once, "Woe to you - when the world thinks well of you! - Pope Francis! The world, indeed, thinks well of you because you have made it so easy to be a "Christian" - that we have become indistinguishable from everyone else. If Pope Francis disbelieves in the perpetual virginity of Our Lady and the miraculous Birth of Our Lord, or only doubts it, I suggest this lack of Faith constitutes some kind of impediment to the fulfillment of Our Blessed Lady's Requests at Fatima. And all such disbeliefs are due to the Evolutionary Modernism that reduces all miracles and supernatural events to the merely human and natural. Pope Piux IX condemned this kind of reductionist of Faith to unbelief under the name of rationalism. (See this writer's Study of Modernism, The Power of Darkness, in type written pages.)

 

Neo-modernists get around this kind of rationalism by their concept of “Salvation History” taken from the document Dei Verbum of the Second Vatican Council. “Salvation History” is in direct violation of the 1925 Encyclical – Spiritus Paraclitus of Pope Benedict XV – which forbade the division of Holy Writ into primary and secondary meanings. "Salvation History" pretends to extract only the spiritual meaning which it considers primary, while the literal meaning is discarded when it does not fit the current evolutionary ideology, which is thoroughly rationalistic in the sense condemned by Pope Pius IX.

 

Given the demonstrable evolutionary modernism predominant in the Church today, it seems fair to ask: Do such prelates have the Faith necessary to fulfill Our Lady's Requests?

The Physical Necessity For The Order Of The Six Days

In the National Catholic Reporter for March 15-28^th of 2013 – on page 21 – there is an article by an Irish theologian and Columban missionary priest, Fr. Sean McDonagh, entitled “Church’s Teaching on Ecology Still Light Green”.  I bypass Fr. McDonagh’s main complaint about the Church’s less than clear and even more than less urgent, teaching on ecology and its relation to Creation. I go rather to the core points of his ideology. I give here two summary quotes:

 
“Unless one understands the magnitude of a problem, one cannot design appropriate responses.”

Truer words were never spoken! But their application to our present situation in the Church vis a vis Creation –something Fr. McDonagh is incapable of grasping – is material for a large book. And so must be postponed as of now. And I move on to my immediate issue with Father’s article. Here is the second quote:

“As we know from the various sciences….the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and that life on earth is about 3.8 billion years old. There were fully functioning ecosystems in the lower carboniferous period from 324 million to 354 million years ago. At that time there were no flowering plants or birds, but there were giant horsetails and ferns and an array of creatures, most of which are now extinct. In religious terms, I am sure that God would have spoken the Genesis words,“It is good,” over this and other phases of the evolution of life on Earth. God would not be waiting for Homo sapiens to arrive about 200,000 years ago to give meaning to creation. It is important theologically to remember that God has a history with nature that is independent of God’s relationship with humanity.”

I have never seen this separation of man from“nature” stated so clearly, in all of its most starkly dark falsehood. There must be, then, two Gods: One for Nature and One for Mankind.

One major problem with this is that science (True Science here) shows us quite irrefutably, that the plants, the animals, birds and man’s body – are all made of the same physical elements. Only the arrangements are different in and unique to each bara-min or created kind– even within the large kingdoms of plant, animal and man. Mankind alone, of all corporeal beings, is the sole representative of his genus and his species. The differences of skin color, skull size and other measurements, - hair texture, and all other physical variations found amongst human beings, are but minor variations – on the same theme of humanity. Here, to my shame, but grateful shame, as should all Catholics, I must refer to the work of the Protestant Creationists, especially that of Dr. Duane Gish, who is certainly the world’s best authority on what evolutionists try to tell us are hominids on the way to homo sapiens. All such human-like “ancestors” have been demonstrated to belong to some species of true primate. Read true accounts of the infamous Scopes trial!

But I digress from my primary aim in this paper, which is to show the physical necessity for the literal Six Days of the Divine Revelation of the Genesis account of Creation.

Given the 3.8 billion years of life on earth, is it possible – in an evolutionary scenario, that the elemental constitution of plants, animals and man would be the same, as is the case in reality? It is difficult – if not impossible, to explain the reality of man– the microcosmos of all systems below him in the Hierarchy of Being– or in the evolutionary “pre-history” – if there were a God of Nature – different from a God of humanity. Creation is one in its physical-material constitution because there is but one God – Who is the Creator of all things. Here is where the necessity of the transcendentals come in. All beings are One, Good and True to God’s idea. For this reason, too, all finite things – “visible and invisible”, manifest in their diverse ways or modes of being, the same physical and metaphysical principles. So, for example, all finite beings manifest in their real existence, a composite of:

Act and Potency – (Angels have only act and potency) – of Form and function – of Form and matter – of Substantial Form and Accidental Forms. Because of this observable and measurable composite nature of every corporeal being, we are forced, if we are to avoid the absurdity of an infinite regress, to admit of a Being Who is all Act with no potency, and to an Efficient Cause of all things – Who is Himself uncaused because He is infinite and eternal. In other words, we have arrived at the 5 Ways of St. Thomas (ST I, q.2, a3) – than which there simply are no better ways of proving God’s existence and His attributes. This fully satisfies the normal human mind – because the human mind is so structured – as to reason according to these First Principles – even when they are denied. Such is the situation today. (See this writer’s Textbook for the Sciences.) The proof-point is that an omnipotent God does not act by temporal processes. He is not limited by time. He is the Creator of time, which began with His first corporeal creature. Therefore, the very best way for God Himself to reveal to man exactly how He created all things, is exactly the way it is revealed in Genesis 1: by a day by day series of a-temporal, i.e., absolutely transcendent Acts of Creation – ex nihilo and in toto.

Whether absolutely, strictly and completely ex nihilo– as on Day One with the creation of the angels and the physical elements, or by making something totally new and unrepeatable, as on Days 3,4,5and 6 – and in creating human souls -- for each new body a new soul, - God’s Acts are absolutely new and unrepeatable. The Protestant Creationists have done, and continue to do, great work in empirically proving that the Earth cannot be more than 10,000 years old. But this is a long way from demonstrating that All things were created in six literal – 24 hour days. We can only say – and I submit it is proof enough – that God’s very nature demands acceptance of the Genesis narrative of Creation. If this is falling into Rationalism, which is to say, expecting human reason to be able to understand and explain everything, then let us hasten to point out that while arriving at God’s existence and attributes is accessible to human reason, as St. Thomas amply demonstrates, the acceptance of the Genesis account –because it is Divine Revelation – does require the supernatural virtue of Faith.