Fill in the Blank

Question 1

“All spheres surround the Sun as though it were in the middle of all of them, and therefore the Sun is near the ____________”

Charles E. Hummel, The Galileo Connection

Answer 1

Middle of the universe

Question 2

“I think that in disputes about natural phenomena one must begin NOT with the authority of scriptural passages, but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations . . . after becoming certain of some physical conclusions, we should use these as very appropriate ____ to the correct interpretation of Scripture.”

Christina

Answer 2

aids

Question 3

“I do not think one has to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, language, and intellect would want us to set aside the use of these. … Indeed, who wants the human mind put to death? . . .When one is in possession of this [scientific information] it too is a _________.’ “Christina,”

Answer 3

Gift from God

Question 4

• ***The Scripture “speak[s] _______ of the earth, water, sun, or other created thing . . . sciences [are] discussed in Scripture to a very minor extent and with disconnected statements; such is precisely the case of astronomy, so little of which is contained therein that one does not find there even the names of the planets, except for the sun, the moon, and only once or twice Venus, under the name Morning Star.”
• Christina

Answer 4

Incidentally

Question 5

“Propositions dictated by the Holy Spirit were expressed by the sacred writers in such a way as to _________ the capacities of the very unrefined and undisciplined masses . . . in order not to sow confusion into the minds of the common people and make them more obstinate against dogmas involving higher mysteries. . . . Indeed I shall further say that it was not only respect for popular inability, but also the current opinion of those times . . . This doctrine [accommodation] is so commonplace and so definite among all theologians that it would be superfluous to present any testimony for it.”

-Ibid

Answer 5

accomodate

Question 6

The Cardinal Baronio Aphorism

Answer 6

“The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, and not how heaven goes.”

• Christina

Question 7

“The word ______ [in the Bible] is literally very appropriate for the stellar sphere [ie, the sphere of fixed stars] and everything above the planetary orbs, which is totally still and motionless according to this arrangement [Copernican astronomy].”

Answer 7

firmament

Question 8

“Galileo’s judges, incapable of dissociating _____ from an ___________, believed quite wrongly that the adoption of the Copernican revolution, was such as to undermine Catholic tradition.
-Poupard, “Report”

Answer 8

faith

age-old cosmology

Question 9

St. Augustine Pastoral perspective regarding science and religion quote

Answer 9

What concern is it of mine whether
[1] heaven is like a sphere and the earth is enclosed by it and suspended in the middle of the universe, or whether [2] heaven like a disk above the earth covers it over on one side?

Question 10

“It can be shown clearly in many other ways that a __________ came upon the earth, by which those people are persuaded who believe with difficulty that these things were explained by Moses [the traditional author of the Book of Genesis]. For even today in mountains that are lofty and difficult to climb, ______ remains are found; this is, shells and fragments of tortoise shells and other such things, which even ourselves have seen.”

• Quoted in Davis A. Young, The Biblical Flood (Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns), 26.

Answer 10

Universal flood

marine

Question 11

A question arises how wild animals, propagated by ordinary mating, like wolves and the rest, can be found on the islands far at sea, unless those which were destroyed by the Flood were replaced by others descended from the animals, male and female, which were saved in the ark. (There is no problem in regard to domestic animals or to those which, like frogs, spring directly from the ______.)
- St. Augustine

Answer 11

soil

Question 12

Another possibility is that, by the command or permission of God and with the help of _____, the animals could have been transferred to the islands.
- St. Augustine

Answer 12

angels

Question 13

The results of their new learning turned up in numerous global deluge theories published during the late 17th (1600s) and early 18th (1700s) centuries. During this period, the _______ of mainstream theoretical earth science in Europe.
- Young, Biblical Flood

Answer 13

the flood was at the centre

Question 14

“By the beginning of the 19th century, the interpretation of geological strata had changed radically. Virtually ________ thought that the thick sequences of stratified sedimentary rocks so evident in quarries, cliffs, and mountains had anything to do with the flood.”

- Young

Answer 14

no established geologist

Question 15

such individuals make an effort to reevaluate both the extra-biblical knowledge and the interpretation of Scripture to determine which needs to be adjusted. There is no question that this option is unsettling, but in the hands of sanctified believers, it can point the way to an ______ understanding of the Bible
- Young, 29

Answer 15

improved

Question 16

“A Geologist perhaps would suggest that the ______ have been distinct & remote the one from the other; that the Creator rested in his labor.” -Darwin

Answer 16

periods of creations

Question 17

“I had gradually come by this time [Oct 1836 to Jan 1839], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly ______ of the world, with the Tower of Babel [Gen 11], the rainbow as a sign [Gen 9], etc., etc., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or any barbarian.” Darwin

Answer 17

false history

Question 18

“By such reflections as these [1-3], which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I came to__________.” Darwin

Answer 18

disbelieve Christianity as a divine revelation

Question 19

“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy of the interposition of a deity, more humble & I believe truer to consider him created ______.” Darwin

Answer 19

from animals

Question 20

“Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created _________, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes like those determining the birth and death of the individual.” Darwin.

Answer 20

By the creator

Question 21

“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been ______ into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” Darwin.

Answer 21

Originally breathed

Question 22

“With respect to the theological view of the question. This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write ___.” Darwin to Gray.

Answer 22

Atheistically

Question 23

“The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of ______.” Darwin

Answer 23

Blind Chance

Question 24

“When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look at a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a ___.” Darwin

Answer 24

Theist

Question 25

“___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___…I may state that my judgment often fluctuates…In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an ___ in the sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally (and more & more as I grow older), but not always, that an ___ would be the more correct description of my state of mind.” Darwin to Fordyce

Answer 25

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist

• Atheist
• Agnostic

Question 26

“I said it was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of mind. I shall never forget Mr. Darwin’s answer. He looked at me very hard and said, ‘Well, that often comes over me with ______; but at other times,’ and he shook his head vaguely, adding, ‘it seems to go away.’” Duke of Argyll on Darwin

Answer 26

overwhelming force

it seems to go away

Question 27

Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion [______] can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth [Bible] and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin,
- Pop Pius XII

Answer 27

polygenism

Question 28

“When the first couple were punished by the judgment of God, the whole human race, which was to become Adam’s posterity through the first woman, was present in _________”

-St. Augustine

Answer 28

the first man

Question 29

“Today, nearly half a century after the publication of the encyclical [i.e., Pius XII], new knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as _______”

-JP II, “Message to Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Evolution,”

Answer 29

More than a hypothesis

Question 30

“With man, then, we find ourselves in the presence of an ______ difference, an _____ leap . . . an “_____ discontinuity.”

-JP II

Answer 30

Ontological, ontological, ontological

Question 31

“In order to be a person, exercising some measure of genuine freedom, the creature must be brought into existence, not in the immediate divine presence, but at a “distance” from God. This “distance” cannot of course be spatial; for God is omnipresent. It must be _____ , a distance in the cognitive dimension.
○ John Hick’s Irenaean Evolutionary Theodicy

Answer 31

an epistemic distance

Question 32

______ expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books.
– St. Augustine, Literal Meaning of Genesis,

Answer 32

Reckless and incompetent