Did God create the world in six days — or is that just poetry the modern Church quietly abandoned? Tonight, Avoiding Babylon sits down with Christian Bergsma to make the Catholic case for a young earth — and it’s more grounded in Tradition than you’ve been told.
For most of Church history, six-day creation wasn’t the fringe position — it was the default. The Church Fathers, the medieval doctors, the plain reading of Genesis: all of it pointed one direction. So how did Catholics end up defaulting to deep time and theistic evolution? And what did we lose when we did?
This isn’t a science-fair debate. It’s a theological one — about the authority of Scripture, the witness of the Fathers, and whether the faith once delivered can survive being renegotiated every time the consensus shifts.
🔥 In this livestream:
- Why young earth creation was the historic Catholic default — not a Protestant import
- What the Church Fathers actually taught about the days of Genesis
- The theological cost of theistic evolution and the “day-age” compromise
- How to hold this position with intellectual honesty in a deep-time culture
- Live Q&A with Anthony and Christian
Christian Bergsma joins us to walk through the theological basis for recent creation — the Scriptural, patristic, and doctrinal case that most Catholics have never actually heard laid out.
