A.Suarez's Treatment on a Pope's Formulation for Original Sin's Transmission!

[AntoineSuarez]

@aleo

The fact that the Vatican has come to embrace the idea of evolution–even deeming it " meaningful" –is extremely important to me. […]
We were to think of our earthly life as an “exile”, rather than the opportunity to become as nearly like our Creator as possible. For me at least, meaningful evolution puts a different perspective on the Scriptural story of the Fall of Adam. & Eve and Original Sin.
Al Leo

You are perfectly in line with what Pope Benedict XVI tells us in his homily at the Aosta Cathedral, on July 24, 2009:

“The role of the priesthood is to consecrate the world so that it may become a living host, a liturgy: so that the liturgy may not be something alongside the reality of the world, but that the world itself shall become a living host, a liturgy. This is also the great vision of Teilhard de Chardin: in the end we shall achieve a true cosmic liturgy, where the cosmos becomes a living host.”

“Meaningful evolution” means that evolution aims to form humanity as the people of God’s children, called to enter a parent-child relationship with God, and become Deus-Homo (“one body in Christ”) at the end of time.

I think Christy has very well expressed the same idea in another thread:

@Christy

Obviously, were a species to lose capacities, they may become unfit for the vocation, but I think it’s good to keep in mind that image of God is a relational, covenental, choseness kind of thing, not something humans evolved and can therefore devolve. If you accept that God is sovereign over creation and shepherding the human species in a personal way toward his desired ends, it would seem out of line with his character to allow a scenario you are describing. That would require a theology where God is super hands off with regard to the destiny of the world, and if that’s the theology, I wonder what place the concept of image of God has in it anyway. If creation is not proceeding toward a divinely willed telos, why would it matter that humans were called to participate in that?

If one accepts that the Son of God became human flesh, the speculation that humankind or part of them can “devolve” into a species that is not image of God is preposterous.