I really don't get it.

 In the comments section on my last post I asked a simple question.

"So, you're saying that evolution didn't happen?"

Robert (the guy with the very long blog title) replied.

"I go with the magisterium of the Catholic Church. Maybe it did maybe it didn't. I was unfamiliar with the term biological evolution. In hindsight the qualifier does make more sense, because many things, motor cars and aeroplanes included, evolve!"

I feel Trent Horn would be pleased with that answer.

The The The Guy can write
confusing stuff too.

So, what is Robert saying? 

Magisterium means the official and authoritative teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. I had to look that up.

Evidently this means that maybe evolution (of animals and humans) happened or maybe it didn't.

Then Robert gets confused because motorcars and aeroplanes also evolve. 

Okay, I thought it would be pretty obvious that both Frank Zindler and I weren't talking about the updating of aeroplanes. We weren't talking about the technological improvement to motorcars either.  

Most people understand that, when evolution is mentioned, there is at least a 99% chance that the speaker is talking about animals

and humans.

The magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, if that's its answer, is saying, "We don't know. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't."

That means that, for them, there is a 50% chance that Adam and Eve never existed. It follows on that there is a 50% chance that there is no such thing as original sin or a devil who appeared as a snake to encourage 'disobedience'.

Sheesh!*

Following on, things aren't looking certain (by any means) for the existence of Hell. 

Does that mean that Robert should alter his really long name to

Robert apathetic sanctimonious person who has a 50% chance of sinning, toilet cleaner, threatener of a punishment that may not exist, and music snob who has little knowledge of ways to play over a dominant 7th chord? 

I rest my case.

* I had to borrow that word from TC.