Author’s note: Our purpose here is not to make any definitive statements about the various allowable Catholic interpretations of creation, but rather to show there are some ‘red flags’ to consider when one chooses to go the Big Bang and evolutionary route––something endorsed by Pope Francis. For a brief but balanced view I suggest listening to Fr. John Hardon SJ on the topic.
In part one we defined Gnosticism. Here we’ll begin to explore the relationship of the Gnostic search for ‘origin of species’ to that of modern science.
The Cosmic Egg and Gnostic Chaos