Christos Anesti
Junior Member
Before I came to the Orthodox Church I was really won over to the Traditionalist or Perennial Philosophy school of Rene Guenon and Schoun. This movement was very anti-modern and reactionary and as part of this general attitude it obviously rejected evolution. At the time I found some of the philosophical arguments against evolution fairly convincing. Philosophy was the grounds the traditionalist authors generally attacked it on because none of them seemed to keen to take it on from a scientific standpoint.
Well, when I came into the Orthodox Church I held on to that view and occasionally argued with my Priest, who accepted evolution, telling him that evolution was anti-Christian and should be rejected. Yep, I was one of those "more orthodox than you" know it all converts who wanted to lecture the priest. In order to back up my opinion I started looking into scientific attempts at refuting evolution. Well, that's where I started loosing faith in the anti-evolution position. The attempts at scientific refutation were just not that convincing. The final nail in the coffin came when I started reading books explaining evolution from mainstream scientific sources and actually listened to podcasts and videos of anti-evolution creationists debate evolutionists on scientific grounds. The evolutionists almost always wiped the table with the anti-evolution creationists. You can see the same right here if you go into the science section of the forum too. The debates among the experts are really mirrored here in the debates between members of the average public with the same outcomes.
So basically the philosophical arguments against evolution seemed somewhat plausible but when I looked at the science of the matter I just had to accept evolution and I found it very hard to take the anti-evolution creationists "scientific" talking points seriously.
Well, when I came into the Orthodox Church I held on to that view and occasionally argued with my Priest, who accepted evolution, telling him that evolution was anti-Christian and should be rejected. Yep, I was one of those "more orthodox than you" know it all converts who wanted to lecture the priest. In order to back up my opinion I started looking into scientific attempts at refuting evolution. Well, that's where I started loosing faith in the anti-evolution position. The attempts at scientific refutation were just not that convincing. The final nail in the coffin came when I started reading books explaining evolution from mainstream scientific sources and actually listened to podcasts and videos of anti-evolution creationists debate evolutionists on scientific grounds. The evolutionists almost always wiped the table with the anti-evolution creationists. You can see the same right here if you go into the science section of the forum too. The debates among the experts are really mirrored here in the debates between members of the average public with the same outcomes.
So basically the philosophical arguments against evolution seemed somewhat plausible but when I looked at the science of the matter I just had to accept evolution and I found it very hard to take the anti-evolution creationists "scientific" talking points seriously.
Upvote
0