num_pages: 448
description: As a missionary in China for 50 years including during Teilhard de Chardin's Peking Man fraud Fr. O'Connell got in on the ground floor of research into questions regarding man's origins. He studied all the relevant literature in English French Italian Spanish and German. Here he brings forth the archaeological paleontological and astronomical evidence which confirms the traditional Catholic teaching that the human race did not evolve from lower animals - and that id did begin with a single man and woman.Fr. O'Connell shows that science has vindicated the traditional teaching of the Church and he affirms the complete inerrancy of every world of Sacred Scripture pointing out the errors of many Catholic writers who want to make the catechism conform to unfounded hypothesis. He covers hominids or apemen such as Neanderthal Man Pre-Neanderthal Man Java Man Piltdown and Peking Man etc. showing each to be a case of either fraud or error. Regarding the Flood he shows that paleontology supports the view that the human race disappeared for a long time from Europe Africa and Western Asia. he covers Pre-Flood and Post-Flood fossils the erroneous theory that the Flood was merely an overflow of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers the date of the Flood its extant and duration the Babylonian account thereof excavations in Mesopotamia Iran the Caspian Sea area etc. frozen mammoths the glacial periods and the question of whether the Deluge reached America. He also goes into the Galileo case the 6 days of Creation the Mosaic authorship of Genesis and Tielhard de Chardin's utter lack of scientific credibility. Fr. O'Connell also exposes the more than 100-year-old propaganda campaign that has been waged in order to give everyone the impression that these anti-Scripture theories are established fact.Though Fr. O'Connell presented this work in 1968 the research findings he reports are still almost unknown today and the crisis of faith caused by unfounded scientific hypotheses has worked havoc in the Church and undermined the faith of most Catholic intellectuals and many ordinary Catholics. Fr. O'Connell gives the scientific evidence why the Church was right. This book is a major contribution and is destined to have a tremendous impact on rebuilding the faith of Catholics.
language: English
title: Science of Today and the Problems of Genesis
publisher: TAN Books and Publishers