The book of Genesis and the evolution theory.

  1. Lemma
  2. Книга Бытия и теория эволюции.
  3. Russian
  4. Saprykin, Dmitry
  5. Orthodox theological tradition and practice > Biblical interpretation - Mutual dependence
  6. 1999
  7. Гоманьков Алексей [Author]. The book of Genesis and the evolution theory.
  8. Той повеле, и создашася. Современные ученые о сотворении мира. : He commanded, and it stood fast. Modern scientists on the world creation.
  9. Evolution - Genesis, Bible
    1. http://www.synergia.itn.ru/kerigma/rek-lit/nauka/creat/stat/toy03.htm
    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."