Hmm, an important question to ask is \"Why are you even asking this question?\" I.E. until recent times the whole concept of evolution was basically unknown and not accepted generally in Orthodox circles. It has only become an issue because so many people do not know the tremendous amount of science that supports a Creation and Flood analysis of the evidence.
Even many non-Christian scientists do not believe in evolution because of the great holes in the theory of evolution, e.g the wildly varying answers given in dating supposed layers of millions of years of rocks.
Those of us who studied science know how unscientific evolution is. And as various quotes have shown, the early fathers disagreed with the Greek notions of what passed for \"evolution\" back then.
So the basic question is \"Why do modern Orthodox feel the need to believe in both an unscientific and un_orthodox belief?\" Belief in evolution implies a view of Adam and Eve and history that just does not marry with Genesis nor with what Jesus Christ, Sts. Peter and Paul clearly believed in- a literal Adam and Eve and a literal flood- were they wrong?!!! If they were right then all the supposed evolution evidence is easily explained by a flood.
Fr. John D\'Alton
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