tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post8941671815290403873..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: What Makes Those "Conservative Catholics" Tick?Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-37067550295998479782011-11-11T21:56:49.066-05:002011-11-11T21:56:49.066-05:00No, I'd say that the Church does indeed deal w...No, I'd say that the Church does indeed deal with new psychological and scientific findings all the time. (Recall, this is the <i>Darwin</i>Catholic blog.) So, for instance, in Aquinas' time theologians were grappling with the up to the minute scientific belief that the physical universe had always existed. Nowadays, with the big bang theory, that's gone, but She grapples with issues such as evolution. That in itself is certainly not a problem.<br /><br />However, there are a number of things which new scientific or psychological information won't charge, from a Catholic point of view. For instance, finding that dispositions towards various sins are genetic (say, a predisposition towards psychotic behavior, or towards drunkenness, or towards homosexual activity) would at most be seen by the Church as affecting the culpability which a person might have for committing the sins to which he is predisposed. Predisposition, no matter how clearly proved, would not be seen as making the acts themselves moral.<br /><br />I'm not clear what you're getting at with the example of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There was no new doctrine (moral or theological) revealed via Our Lady's appearance to Juan Diego.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-60357972534075291262011-11-11T20:47:43.481-05:002011-11-11T20:47:43.481-05:00A most interesting post. The common thread, it see...A most interesting post. The common thread, it seems, is the assumption that the Church is unflexible or does not change according to newly determined psychological and scientific findings. One need only look at the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe to see the fallacy there. The Church is constantly in flux; it is not stagnant. What, then, is the fear?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com