text: ok, Tridentius, no insult but your comment shows that you do not understand the multi-parent scenario. The hypothesis does not require that the parents sprung up in different regions of the world. I don't even know how you got that impression. Therefore,you still haven't answered the question. What is the "altar of scientism"? Do you mean people who are willing to accept that physical reality is best ascertained by those who study it using science? The church doesn't dispute that. The scriptures are not infallible on geology, biology, physics, etc. nor has the church ever insisted that they are. Catholics are not required to pretend that what is real is not real. If you want to believe, like Marty, that the earth is 6000 years old and that humans lived concurrently with dinosaurs, that is your right. If you believe that though, would you give us the courtesy of telling us that here on this forum?