These days I'm pretty much a businessman.
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
I always root for the defense.
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.