Lighten up!

The priest at Mass this morning opened his homily with the following joke.  I’ve been chuckling about it all day.  I couldn’t remember the exact words of the joke, so I googled it for accuracy.  I found it on another person’s blog and copied it.  Before I did though, I also perused the comments in the blog about the post.  First, here’s the joke:

A little girl asked her father, "How did the human race appear?"  The father answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made.”

Two days later the girl asked her mother the same question. The mother answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."

The confused girl returned to her father and said, "Dad, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Mama said they developed from monkeys?"

The father answered, "Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your Mama told you about hers."

A couple of the comments took the joke for what it is—humor.  But the “atheism at any cost” types were vehement in denouncing any theory about the creation of the human race other than simply the science of evolution.  When will they realize that seemingly opposing viewpoints in regard to science and faith are almost never “either/or”, but most often they are “both/and”?  

To get the real explanation of what the Catholic Church teaches about the beginning of the human race, read the Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs 282-289.

 

In the meantime, lighten up.