The book of Genesis and the evolution theory.

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleКнига Бытия и теория эволюции.
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Orthodox theological tradition and practice > Biblical interpretation - Mutual dependence
6. Publication date 1999
7. lemma work Гоманьков Алексей [Author]. The book of Genesis and the evolution theory.
8. lemma manifestations Той повеле, и создашася. Современные ученые о сотворении мира. : He commanded, and it stood fast. Modern scientists on the world creation.
9. Keywords Evolution - Genesis, Bible
10. Citations
    1. http://www.synergia.itn.ru/kerigma/rek-lit/nauka/creat/stat/toy03.htm
11. Lemma body

    1. The author compares the synthetic evolution theory and the Christian doctrine of the man and animals’ origin, and proves that opposing evolution and creation, as creationists insist on, is “nothing more than a misunderstanding since the biblical description of the organic world emergence looks even more evolutionary than paleontological”.

       Evolutionists never insisted on significant changes in the world after man appearance, says the author. The dispute, therefore, was not about the fact of the evolution existence, as its participants thought, but only about how long this process continued.

       The author is confident that God providence of the world is accomplished not in spite of "natural course of things", but due to it and through it. Since God participates in the world life, there must be some "application points" of the Divine will in the world: events reflecting this Divine intervention, which for the observer "from within the world" (that is observing and describing only the phenomena natural causes), would appear as having no natural causes, that is occurrences (for example, mutations).

       In descriptions of the evolutionary process in the Book of Genesis and in modern paleontology, the author reveals both a number of coincidences (plants originated earlier than animals, aquatic animals arose earlier than the terrestrial ones, man emerged in the last turn) and contradictions (it is obscure how the plants created on the 3rd "day" could exist without the Sun, created only on the 4th "day", terrestrial reptiles appeared before birds). These contradictions, the author notes, may be caused either by an incorrect Bible interpretation, either by a poor translation of it, or by a lack of modern scientific data. "Nature, being the work of the Creator, is also a revelation of Him for us, supplementing and developing the Holy Scripture."