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Unfortunately with rationalism, Darwinism, and modernism, we have thrown out anything that we cannot comprehend (reason) and we have paid and continue to pay dearly for it! (In the Catholic Church particularly, many bishops, priests and laity are confused and unaware that they are living a life that is essentially void of faith since they have learned that reason "trumps" faith. This kind of "faith" puts trust in self over trust in the Lord and is not faith at all. Lord, help us!)
This series truly points us back to our foundations and for that I am forever grateful! I cannot recommend it enough!!
Online streaming is the most convenient way for an individual to watch this series. However I choose to get the dvd set as well so that I would always have access to the content.
Anyone who expects to teach this content must get he DVD series and it's complementary teacher's guide.
Thank you
+JMJ+
It is now apparent that evolutionism, along with marxism, is directly responsible for murdering up to about 2 billion people worldwide.
Of course the Church is right. It always has been. Always will be.
I will never look at the sun rising, in the same way again.
The content itself is a very well laid out explanation of the Traditional Church teachings, next to the current science validating the Faith and the errors of main stream science, both on the scientific and philosophical aspects.
My only regret is not buying it earlier.
The DVDs/episodes are about 1 hour long, logically structured.
Thank you very much for this series! It's incredibly thorough and does an excellent job of not just giving a bunch of information, but rather drawing viewers into a deeper relationship with their Creator.
This series not only clearly shows how false and contrary to science, Darwin's ideas are but even more importantly reveals how this lie has contaminated (and in many cases destroyed) so many aspects of science, philosophy and theology - sometimes in the most subtle of ways.
The series also reveals how darwinism was the 'scientific justification' used to 'legitimise' most of the worst atrocities in the recent past such as Nazism, Communism, abortion, racism, abuse of the handicapped as well as many other examples.
This series is essential viewing for all those wishing to study philosophy, theology or indeed any of the natural sciences as it will help the viewer purify their minds of this lie which has influenced so many aspects of the modern world, often in such subtle and hidden ways.
As someone who once thought that being a practicing a catholic and believing in evolution were compatible I now realise I was wrong.
The TRUTH has set me free, my prayer is that it will set you free too!
I remember as a teenager attending seminars by Jesuit Priests explaining how Big Bang theory and evolution does not contradict with God’s creation. On how “God created the human race as as someone who makes a final vase perfectioning with clay through time”. On how “for God a thousand years is a day”.
The only problem with that is that is against the first statement of our Catholic Creed: “I believe in God Father the Almighty”.
I am grateful to you for set me free of a lie that has hold me for decades. May God bless you and protect you.
I appreciate having a work like Foundations Restored because of the detail of information, which can be used as a reference. (I have so far listened up to episode IX) Now, we need to turn our attention to the Bible as a source of truth and be able to reconcile it with the obstacles seen by young people today.
For example, the Bible teaches two of every type of animal on the earth (to include birds) was brought into the ark. In years past, trying to work out the dimensions of the ark, it seemed not to be larger than a second world war liberty ship. We can already see an impossibility here unless we bring in divine intervention in the storage of animals. This is based on there being no evolution (before or after the flood) and the statement of no new creation after the sixth day.
It seems to me God has allowed better information and understanding in recent times often in the form of things we should have known all along. Could this lack of understanding have been allowed as a result of sin & will further understanding be given by the mercy of God?
Thank you,
BFC
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I was steeped in Darwinian Evolutionary teaching in the public schools and church I attended. This caused great doubt and confusion as I read the Bible.
The Foundation Restored series, which I have completed in it’s entirety, has given me the TRUTH desperately needed.
The dark matter in my mind has been replaced with the LIGHT of the Traditional Catholic doctrine of Creation.
As I now read the Holy Scriptures, I am convicted of the Absolute Truth contained within from Genesis to Revelation.
The GRATITUDE I have is ETERNAL.
Thank you to ALL who brought this series to the Laity Little.
The Foundations Restored series should be an obligatory tool for teaching in seminaries and in Catholic schools. It should be made available free online for anyone to study. It can start an orthodox revival in the whole world. I hope it will do so!
Prof. Maciej Giertych
BA, MA Oxon, PhD Toronto, DSc Poznań
Jeroen Mous
The Netherlands
In paragraph 17 of St. Pius X’s 1905 encyclical, Acerbo Nimis (On Teaching Christian Doctrine), the saintly Pope states,
"17. What We have said so far demonstrates the supreme importance of religious instruction. We ought, therefore, to do all that lies in our power to maintain the teaching of Christian doctrine with full vigor, and where such is neglected, to restore it; for in the words of Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, 'There is nothing more effective than catechetical instruction to spread the glory of God and to secure the salvation of souls.'"
So, following both Pope St. Pius X and Pope Benedict XIV, who are quoted above, work to do all in your power to maintain the Catholic doctrine. As the bodily incorrupt Pope Pius X states, work where Catholic doctrine and teaching have been neglected, “to restore it”.
Restore these Catholic doctrines of creation with Foundations Restored and help secure the salvation of souls!
Et pax Christi tibi..
Congratulations to you and your associates on this great work. The presentation of the comprehensive Catholic perspective is greatly needed. I was once of the view that Theistic evolution was theologically acceptable and that, within that framework, we should leave it to “science” to fight it out. After all, paragraph 36 of Humani Generis seemed to me to allow for that view. I progressed by: 1. Discovering the encyclical stating that the Bible is to be interpreted literally except where reason or necessity require otherwise, and 2. Arriving at the certitude that God - the Good, the Beautiful and the True - would not do anything so prosaic as taking monkeys, sucking the animal souls out of them, breathing human souls into them and giving them a physical makeover.
I think many Catholics - good Catholics - believe as I once believed and relegate Special Creation and Young Earth to the backward and unenlightened beliefs of Protestant Fundamentalists who, by the way, have also done some excellent work on the subject.
I pray that your great work will become mainstream in the Catholic world.
Just one whinge: I found several segments difficult to play and a couple I have not yet been able to play at all. I have scanned other reviews and have not found a similar complaint, so perhaps the problem is on my end.
Wishing you and yours a blessed and holy Easter
Tony Appleton
As a life-long Catholic, I am grateful to the producers and all those who contributed to making this knowledge available. I always suspected some of the issues discussed and their explanation of the root causes, but I couldn't find evidence through my own research. So, I always resorted to my faith and that the authors of our Scripture and our Church Fathers and Doctors would never lie to us. Thank God, I trusted them over secular Catholic teachers. As laity this material has helped me focus on how to defend my faith and family.
I highly recommend all who come across this material to buy it.
For those looking to buy this, please don't be surprised to see such a high rating from all reviews. This is truly a game-changer.
I am amazed that the Kolbe Center has made so much information available at such a reasonable price. This has more material than over 4 years of college/university-level courses.
I am saddened that much of this information is suppressed in the mainstream Catholic Church, so it is imperative for us laity to learn this ourselves. Our Church Fathers and Doctors have answered all possible questions we have about our Faith through Scriptures and through their theology. Unfortunately, almost all of these have been systematically ejected from our seminaries. So don't be upset at our priests as they are poorly trained. Hence it is even more necessary for you to study this material for the sake of your soul and the souls of your children.
This material can be technical at times and rightfully so because they have covered almost all topics such as modernism, rationalism, humanism, communism (socialism), eugenics, darwinism, evolution hypothesis, documentary hypothesis in the required detail. So please be patient and give yourself time to digest this material.
DON'T forget to impart what you learn from this to youth in your family. It's our God-given duty to teach our young ones properly in faith.
Holy Mary, pray for us.
St. Augustine, pray for us.
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.
St. Maximillian Kolbe, pray for us.
Some of the stylistic choices made I found excessive or distasteful, although others might have found them more pleasing; I also noticed a small handful of typos over the course of the series, but these do not detract from the wealth of research and analysis presented. Further, as other reviewers have noted, while Episode XII is very informative and important, it is not for young audiences; Episode II also, at least the very end, was hard to watch, even though I knew exactly what was coming (and grateful that it was presented!). Some viewer discretion is advised in these places.
In sum, the series is very well researched and carefully presented. I will be recommending it to my students, colleagues, and friends. I earnestly hope that the groundbreaking work done to prepare and produce this series may continue and be taken up into academic circles, not only because the need for the recovery of these truths there is so great, but also so that these truths may be further expounded and substantiated with the full rigor of academic discourse, and so deal a tremendous blow to the enemies of God and His Church who dominate the academy.
God bless you all, and the Virgin protect us!
Peter Caumo
Some of the later episodes get very technical in the terminologies and subject matter, but the arguments are sufficient so far as they are explained. Only experts in the topics can really engage with the evidence, however.
The only big issue that I’ve noticed is in the presentation. Many of the speakers were filmed seated and visibly reading their lines from behind the camera. Though this does allow for them to be precise in their wording, it does not come off as very compelling or natural as it does in many interview-style documentaries with various experts that are common with this genre.
Ad Jesum per Mariam,
Robby
I was not disappointed, in fact, the entire series is exceptional. I read all of the reviews to date and agree with every one of them. The production quality is first class (thank you Keith Jones). The Icons of Evolution took a thorough thrashing and theistic evolution has been exposed for its glaring errors and inconsistencies. Catholics can once again proudly stand on the shoulders of the Fathers, Doctors and Saints and profess the same doctrine on Creation (the Special Creation/Providence framework) that the Church has professed for more than a millennium.
For the Thomists out there, the series does an excellent job in demonstrating why St. Thomas Aquinas would have rejected macro evolution, but because this is such a large topic, I would also recommend Fr. Michael Chaberek’s book “Aquinas and Evolution” which thoroughly exposes the major weaknesses of the arguments of the “Thomisitc Evolutionists”.
I will be promoting the video series everywhere I can.
Foundations Restored brilliantly, and thoroughly, exposes evolution as not a science, but a philosophy, and a world view. This idea to most is a ridiculous one: however, to the dismay of the hostile viewer, one of the great strengths of the series is that you are not even allowed to be tempted with a, 'well that's just what you think' mindset, as they quote so many experts, the vast majority being evolutionists, in readily recognizable secular publications, that show the individual points about the science to not only be logical, but stated in official scientific journals, many in direct contradiction of what you were taught in high school! So many in fact, that I wish now that I had kept a tally of all the scientists quoted. The length of the series may seem daunting, but if it wasn't long it could not contain such a thorough discussion; furthermore, if it was only 1 and a half hours long, you may be tempted to disregard it off hand, as simply being too short to be serious. Indeed, if you are hostile to this idea, I hope you take this as a personal, yet friendly, challenge to be brave enough to test your outlook.
The discussion on human evolution is incredibly exact. I've seen another documentary, which was very good, but when it came to the evolution of man, they focused primarily upon Neandertal, and whereas it was good they hardly touched on any other 'link.' This series, to my great admiration, focuses about 2 hours on the subject, and knowing that most people know that neandertal man is easily identified as fully human, spend minimum time on him, and spend the time on not only every single member of the currently held sequence, but then discuss the alternative sequences that other evolutionists are attempting to construct, to save the theory. All backed up by the scientific literature. Similarly, the episode on the flood, and Genetics (and indeed all topics) will be a shock to most viewers, as most people have never heard the overwhelming evidence for the Great Flood, nor of Genetic Entropy, which if either are true, completely and utterly, demolish the theory of evolution.
This series is absolutely a must have for anyone that actually cares what they believe, in fact, if one wanted to understand the truth on the matter it could be done solely with this series, and greatly backed up with the book 'Evolution: The Grand Experiment Vol.2 Living Fossils.'
I have read a number of books on this subject, seen a number of documentaries, and seen/listened to many presentations from popular organizations online, and whereas credits to the scientists, and their works, that have made this series possible, such as Dr. Sanford, go where they go, this series, is clearly the crowning achievement of Creationism.
Note For Parents: Episode XII is important, but not for young ears.
It is not a boring-- monologue with just pictures that is assumed because usually with Catholic informational DVD series there isn't much for financial support. This is TOP QUALITY, state of the art filmmaking, intriguing education on the TRUE story of creation. Right now, in the Church we are thirsting for truth. Drop everything now, buy this DVD set, for the salvation of yourself and your children. No where else will you find the information, facts, truth and Catholicism that you will find here about the truth of creation.
It is my hope that this incredibly important series be viewed and shared throughout the Catholic Community worldwide. It definitely restored my faulty foundation. It is a profound and exciting DVD series that is also enjoyable to watch!
that what we were taught by the nuns so many years ago :
that the book of Genesis is a true account of creation,
is actually true.
Thank you very much for this series.
I pray that it disseminates rapidly throughout the whole Catholic Church.
Ave Maria !
GLORY to JESUS CHRIST, NOW AND FOREVER!
Thomas V. Cole
The only critique I have: All the citations are read by the same person. I don’t have the impression that the narrator deliberately did it, but some of the views came over with a somewhat condescending underline. For example, when the narrator reads a citation mimicking the voice of a woman. Not an issue for the Catholic viewer, but it might hinder the openness of a skeptic for the well-presented facts.
It would be great if the series could be translated to other languages or at least be provided with subtitles.
I have been very interested in finding various sources of information in opposing the false claims of Darwinian evolution for a few years now.
What your team have put together here is truly compelling, inspiring and a great hope for the resilience of my home schooled childrens faith going out into the world.
I pray that it will be seen far and wide and I am personally extremely greatful to everyone who made Foundations restored possible.
God Bless you all!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God Bless, Viva Cristo Rey!
Jeff Korson
A very well researched and presented series.
I have recommended Foundations Restored to a number of Catholics.
Our poor school children have been sold a lie and indoctrinated, all part of a plan to dumb-down our thinking and to view humans as just another species to be disposed of at will. In other words, nothing special about human creation.
Well this series is convincing and a perfect educational tool to re-wire the thinking of many who have fallen prey to the Cartesian-darwinian lie.
Great work from the team and thank you for swimming against the tide and for giving us a treasure.
I loved the series that I ordered both the streaming and hard copy version.
Do not hesitate to buy, watch and share Foundations Restored.
I have heard many of the arguments in this excellent presentation before, but never so completely, so thoroughly — even astonishingly — presented. I’ve asked a trained geneticist, biologist, and geologist to view the program. All acknowledged Foundations Restored as completely accurate and reliable in its presentations, with the geologist noting newfound discomfort at beliefs he has long held.
How good is this? I’ve long had problems accepting the “6,000 year” biblical history.
I don’t, anymore. The arguments supporting the Christian Origin Story are highly credible — from a *scientific* perspective. More so than I ever would have believed.
I’ve recommended that my parish incorporate this series into their RCIA program. If you have not heard these arguments before, get ready for an eye-opening experience that may very well change the way you view the world, it is that compelling.
It is a tour de force. Your entire family should watch this presentation, together. Because it is phenomenal.
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