It is also not disproved.
The EOC stance on evolution is fairly well know, but I just wonder if they will ever change their stance on it considering that the early Church Fathers really had no understanding of it.
http://www.christianforums.com/thre...now-understand-the-scriptures-better.7263824/
Did the ECFs really know/understand the Scriptures better?
http://www.asna.ca/articles/200501-03.html
On the contrary, however, evolution is hardly a "done deal", and the question of evolution vs. creation cuts to the very heart of the Orthodox worldview. Those who accept it as somehow compatible with Orthodox Christian teaching, or who see the question as irrelevant, should consider the following:
1) The Witness of the Church Fathers contradicts evolutionary theory. A multiplicity of Church Fathers - most notably St. Basil the Great.................
2) Evolution is a Scientific Theory - Not a Scientific Fact. When secular science discovered the theory of evolution, it realized it had found a necessary concept to fill a philosophical void which says that since God could not have created the universe, some alternate theory - any theory - is needed to explain it...................
3) Evolutionary Theory is Incompatible with Orthodoxy - and Opposed to It. The whole point of Christ's Death and Resurrection was to redeem us from the consequences of the Fall: this underscores the idea that our human condition, according to the Orthodox worldview, is worse now than it was at one time, not better. The idea of Social Darwinism - that our world societies are improving, and that we are moving toward a fundamentally more perfect state of the human race - contradicts the prophetic witness of the scriptures and the Fathers that this world will culminate in the rule of Antichrist, not in an earthly utopia........................................
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If I am not mistaken, doesn't the RCC lean towards evolution as being more than a theory and perhaps more of scientific facts?
http://www.newsweek.com/pope-franci...ot-controversial-among-roman-catholics-281115
Pope Francis’s Remarks on Evolution
Pope Francis has been head of the Catholic Church for less than two years, but in that time he has managed to overshadow his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, with his progressive statements on issues ranging from gay marriage to capitalism. On Monday, he did it again, saying evolutionary theory does not contradict biblical teaching—at an unveiling of a bust of Benedict.
This time, however, his remarks may not have been that revolutionary for Roman Catholics across the world.
Pope Francis told an audience from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City
on Monday that theories of evolution and the Big Bang are not inconsistent with creationism and biblical teaching. “The evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve,” Pope Francis said, according to a
Vatican newswire transcript of the event.........................................
“[Francis’s] views echo those of his predecessors, including Pope Benedict XVI and especially John Paul II on the importance of respecting the independence and integrity of scientific inquiry,” Miller said.
Where Francis departs from his predecessor Benedict, is that he appears not merely to tolerate the existence of the theory of evolution, but to celebrate it, John F. Haught, a Roman Catholic theologian and professor of theology at Georgetown University tells
Newsweek.............................
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