When I am asked if I believe in the evolution I answer that it is one of the two projects I still work on. Do you want to know what the second one is? That Queen Elizabeth is my relative. The both projects can be true but at the moment there are still significant missing links in the families’ trees regarding the both projects. Usually my interlocutors attack me saying: “But what are you going to say if the missing link is found and it is proved that we come from aps?” I can tell you it will not destroy my faith in the first pages of the Bible where it is explained that God fashioned the first people from the clay because if the theory of the evolution is true the aps evolved from simpler forms of life and those simpler forms from the others so the origin of human kind isn’t in some monkeys but in simple bacteria. The church hasn’t rejected the theory of the evolution as some people say because it is simply still a theory. If it is proved one day we will say that the process of fashioning of the first people, pictured in a poetic way in the Bible, had the form of the evolution, that God was preparing the physical body for people over a long period of time and when it was ready he breathed in the body his breath of life. However there is a more important thing to remember: the theory of the evolution can be used to search how human body has been developing but the theory of the evolution cannot be used to eliminate God from this process of development. Quite often when I listen to talks on TV or radio about this topic I feel that this discussion isn’t about where people come from but that there is no God. When we get to this point of discussion we need to say that the conclusion that there is no God is ridicules. Why? Because I cannot accept that bones and skulls explain everything about human kind.
In the Gospel for this Mass Jesus spoke so much about love. Even those who don’t believe in Jesus agree that a human being is capable of loving. Where does it come from? Is it something we have inherited from monkeys? Animals can look after each other or to protect each other but they do that out of instinct to survive themselves and to ensure that their kind survives. People on the other hand can go beyond looking after themselves and protecting each other. Let’s take for example motherly love. Is there anyone here who would compare his or her mum’s love to that of a she-dog looking after her puppies or a she-cat protecting her kittens? I would be offended if somebody said that there was no difference between my mum’s love and that of a cat. So where does this human motherly love come from? Does that thought move your mind up to heaven, to God? It does in my case!
Another example; can you remember that 13th of May 34 years ago when John Paul II was shot. People were asking how could somebody try to kill such a good man but it is not the biggest question in regards to the situation. A bigger question is: How could the Pope go to the man who tried to kill him and to say that he had forgiven him. John Paul even called the man his brother. Tell me now: Where does this ability come from? From an animal?
Ladies and Gentlemen! A few minutes ago I said that bones and skulls dug out of the clay cannot fully explain who we are because we aren’t limited to bones and skulls. There is something is us, we call it SOUL, that makes us humans. Because of this soul we are capable of loving.
In the Gospel for this Mass Jesus spoke so much about love. Even those who don’t believe in Jesus agree that a human being is capable of loving. Where does it come from? Is it something we have inherited from monkeys? Animals can look after each other or to protect each other but they do that out of instinct to survive themselves and to ensure that their kind survives. People on the other hand can go beyond looking after themselves and protecting each other. Let’s take for example motherly love. Is there anyone here who would compare his or her mum’s love to that of a she-dog looking after her puppies or a she-cat protecting her kittens? I would be offended if somebody said that there was no difference between my mum’s love and that of a cat. So where does this human motherly love come from? Does that thought move your mind up to heaven, to God? It does in my case!
Another example; can you remember that 13th of May 34 years ago when John Paul II was shot. People were asking how could somebody try to kill such a good man but it is not the biggest question in regards to the situation. A bigger question is: How could the Pope go to the man who tried to kill him and to say that he had forgiven him. John Paul even called the man his brother. Tell me now: Where does this ability come from? From an animal?
Ladies and Gentlemen! A few minutes ago I said that bones and skulls dug out of the clay cannot fully explain who we are because we aren’t limited to bones and skulls. There is something is us, we call it SOUL, that makes us humans. Because of this soul we are capable of loving.
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