A couple of points:
A friend and evolutionist pointed out that Darwin wrote The Origin of SPECIES, not The Origin of LIFE. This is different from today's neo-Darwinism in that Darwin proposed a way that new life forms could develop from a first living cell, not how the first cell could get the game started, and on that point, Darwin appears to have suggested that a divine kick provided the first life form to get evolution going. That may not be the contemporary picture at all among secular evolution, but Darwin bore the tragedy of enduring his child's death, and became a deist and wanted an account for how a deist version of God could set up the dominos for life to exist but not intervene in history. He didn't pretend to know how a first cell could evolve from non-living material; certitude in something like \"chemical evolution\" before any \"biological evolution\" only came later.
Second, there is a degree of flexibility built into Orthodoxy; the Orthodox Church rejected Novatianism, which was essentially Orthodoxy without the flexibility of oikonomia, not allowing remarriage even after a first marriage was ended by death. (Now the Orthodox Church does offer a \"council of perfection\" that bereaved faithful remain faithful to their spouses, but this never takes the merciless hard edge it took in Novatianism.) I would point out that the original poster was willing to believe that if the evidence was for evolution, that was how God did it. (It just turns out that today's science at very least cannot plausibly account for what would have created the first working cell. I personally believe there is more that it doesn't account for, but I don't want to go into that right now.) There is something quite Orthodox in his attitude.
Third, I would like to give some links from my website. The first and second reply directly to this question, but the third says something I consider even more valuable:
[url=http://JonathansCorner.com/origins/]The Evolution of a Perspective on Creation and Origins[/url]
[url=http://JonathansCorner.com/young/]Why Young Earthers Aren't Completely Crazy[/url]
[url=http://JonathansCorner.com/religion-scicence/]Religion and Science Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution[/url]
Evolution is significant when it is the cutting edge of the sword wielded by secularism and naturalism. But Orthodoxy has more important things to pay attention to.
[url=http://JonathansCorner.com/]Christos Jonathan[/url]
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