Hey! You’re Erasing ME!

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Was it my tone? Or my modernism?

I’m off Raphael’s blogroll. Fascinating.

Here’s a modernist nugget from Archpriest John Matusiak, writing for the Orthodox Church in America’s Question and Answer section: “Orthodoxy has no problem with evolution as a scientific theory, only with evolution — as some people may view it — eliminating the need for God as Creator of All.” The full article reveals that Fr. John would benefit from a deeper reading on the issues surrounding the question, but the quote above summarizes the article concisely.

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3 Responses to “Hey! You’re Erasing ME!”

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   Erich Says:
   November 13th, 2004 at 12:21 am

   This is a weird issue though. I find no Orthodox consensus along these lines. I know many priests who are fine with evolution. I also know a few who are completely convinced that evolution will soon be overturned as a scientific theory. Something leads me to doubt about the prospects of that, but it’s what they say, implying that they think of evolution as a threat to Christianity. Evolution really undermined Christianity in its time because it undermined one of the logical arguments for God’s existence that had gained ascendency at the time. However, since we don’t rely on these arguments, some would say that the problem confronting 19th c Catholicism does not effect us. Plantinga’s argument for proper function is difficult to get around though.

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   basil Says:
   November 13th, 2004 at 12:32 am

   You are referring, of course, to the argument from design. Well, one way of looking at the issue is to infer that natural selection strikes at the argument from design, but another is to see natural selection as part of the larger design.

   Plantinga’s proper function argument is actually very interesting to me now. It strikes me that perhaps there needs to be a via media between foundationalism and Reformed epistemology (can’t we find another name for it?). I’m not sure I’m quite as committed to foundationalism as I once was, but I still find a great deal to appreciate in Thomism.

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   Victoria Says:
   November 20th, 2004 at 12:51 pm

   Evolution doesn’t say that we evolved from apes, for gosh sake! It says that we are related to them.

   I know, I’ve picked on a different topic than the one addressed here, but it’s a basic misunderstanding about evolution.