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Do Catholic apologists who teach evolution do so out of malice?

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Robert Sungenis answers that he is close to concluding so: Pius XII's Humani Generis 17 holds polygenism incompatible with original sin, so no Catholic can accept evolution without an approved answer to it. He says apologists who know this yet keep promoting evolution with unchecked hypotheses are doing so out of malice, and those who do not know it should not speak on the topic.

A viewer asks whether, given the irrationality of rejecting the Church's teaching and of evolution itself, it is fair to say Catholic apologists who teach evolution do so out of malice.

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I do not want to pin that on them just yet, but I may soon, because it is rather obvious. Any Catholic who has read Pius XII's Humani Generis, paragraphs 16 and 17, sees that paragraph 16 lays out the red carpet and says evolution is possible, but paragraph 17 gives the problem: polygenism, multiple couples producing humans simultaneously, which is incompatible with original sin, since original sin can only come from one couple and be perpetuated to their progeny. Unless you can show how polygenism is possible in view of original sin, and unless that explanation is officially accepted by the Vatican, you as a Catholic cannot believe in evolution. So if someone covers it up by saying he has an answer to polygenism, spouting hypotheses no one has checked with scientists or theologians at the Vatican, and he knows all this, then his continued preaching of evolution is of malice. I usually give people a lot of space, but this is pretty clear, and if you do not know it, you should not even be talking on the topic, much less making decisions for everyone.

Answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis

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