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The Counsel of Trent

#887 - An Embarrassing Young Earth Creationist Argument

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Trent responds to a scandalously weak argument against evolution based on claims of human dinosaur coexistence.

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Recently Kennedy Hall and Taylor Marshall were discussing the legend of St George the Dragon Slayer and at one point Hall claimed that

0:07.0

medieval depictions of dragons were actually depictions of dinosaurs that survive Noah's flood.

0:13.5

Other young earth creationists also claim to have evidence of dinosaurs living among human beings quite recently,

0:19.5

that allegedly disproves evolution.

0:21.6

And today I'm going to talk about why that's a bad argument that

0:24.2

Catholics shouldn't use because of the harm it can cause. First I want to

0:28.1

address something Hall and Marshall said about Catholic answers and the theory of

0:31.6

evolution.

0:32.8

If I were on a Catholic answers thing

0:34.4

and I was like, hmm, you know,

0:36.9

let's question infant baptism.

0:38.4

And like, oh, let's talk about that, you know,

0:40.2

or let's talk about, you know.

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But if you say, if you come in you're like theistic evolution is false, like they

0:46.5

get kind of dogmatic about it.

0:48.6

Yeah.

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Now if Marshall just said evolution is false, we wouldn't be dogmatic about it.

0:54.6

Some Catholic answers staff members might agree with him and others might disagree.

0:59.4

But if he said the church teaches, theistic evolution is false.

1:05.2

Then I will be very dogmatic because that's not what the church teaches.

1:09.7

I want to make it clear that the Catholic Church does not have a teaching about the theory of

1:13.9

evolution or the extinction of the dinosaurs. You can be a faithful Catholic and

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