Post script:
I winced after writing the last note because it seemed correct but wrong in spirit, (maybe) winning an argument but not building up the person I was responding to. But I really am concerned for the effect arguments like that have on evolutionists: it closes their mind completely, and does more than anything else to assure them that there is no need to consider whether there might be a God behind our world.
If you have come into Orthodoxy from a heterodox tradition, you may understand why some people say it takes years after joining the Orthodox Church to really be Orthodox. It's a long process that starts as Orthodox gilding over a Protestant or other interior; I know that in my own writings, even recent ones in some ways, there is something very non-Orthodox about them, even after several years in the Church. It takes years of immersion for the change to take effect.
In this respect I would compare science to Orthodoxy. It won't make you holy, or prepare you for Heaven, or usually give you an edge in fighting your passions; it may make your passions worse. But science is something that takes years to learn. And when I meet arguments like the ones I've encountered here, they don't come, as the original poster's argument, from spending years trying to understand science. They come from the mine of arguments provided by Protestant fundamentalists.
Understanding evolution from the attacks made by Protestant fundamentalists is every bit as hard as understanding Orthodoxy from the attacks Protestant fundamentalists make on it. You can't even understand Orthodoxy from Catholics assuring us that we have the same faith; Protestant attacks are less of a window into the soul either of Orthodoxy or of evolution.
If you want to get letters after your name understanding biology and then straighten things out, fine. I personally would rather do other things with my time, and there are really more Orthodox things to be concerned about. But unless you are going to dive into that river for years, please don't present yourself as an authority.
The piece I mentioned earlier about why there are really better things for most Orthodox to be doing, is [url=http://JonathansCorner.com/religion-science/]Religion and Science Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution[/url]. And one of many bigger things to be concerned about, I try to convey, is [url=http://JonathansCorner.com/silence/]hesychasm, spiritual silence, which is a kind of organic food for the soul[/url].
Let's get on to better things.
[url=http://JonathansCorner.com/]Christos Jonathan[/url]
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