Science and Orthodoxy: Part 1

[BakinKoljac]

i have difficulties to follow him.....could someone point out the topics?

[zragisha]

@BakinKoljac radi se o veri i nauci, koje se iskljucuju po zapadnjackom svhatanju, a on objasni da nauka i vera mogu zajedno i da je istina svetinja, bez obzira na to ko je otkrije

[BakinKoljac]

@zragisha

hvala :)

[BaelZozgoreth]

I wish I was a monastic under your observance, father.

thank you for the wisdom, made long ago, yet affects me positively now. thank you.

[stevehayes13]

Truth is sacred, no matter who discovers it. You are so right.

[psevdhome]

He is risen indeed! Although today was the feast of the Presentation of the Theotokos in my Church. :)Thank you for these video series, it is a great joy for me to finally find a video on this topic, and get an Orthodox Christian view on it. Thank you very much for this and other videos.

[allsaintsmonastery]

We are well aware of these things. They will be dealt with in the course of these discissions. It is far more our concern to discuss the revealation and meaning of narratives than to enter into debate with hysterical fundamentalists. The earth is4.5 billion years old (+-) and The Flintstones was not a documentary.

[gCuezy]

As a potential protestant convert to orthodoxy (which is probable) you have no idea how happy it made me to read this comment.

[TimothyStinson]

@allsaintsmonastery With all do respect Your Eminence, If evolution were true then at what point did man become and image of God? Were the Homo eruectus endowed with an intellect in the image of God or did that previous to that evolutionary stage closer to the apes?

Sarcasm aside (although if you can answer these questions, feel free), evolution removes what makes man different than the rest of creation from us. If evolution is true I suppose gorillas are next in line for a rational soul.?

[allsaintsmonastery]

@TimothyStinson

[allsaintsmonastery]

@TimothyStinson If your faith is too weak and your trust in God to unformed for you to be able to face reality, then trying to disprove what is true should not occupy your mind so much as trying to pray and have your faith and trust strengthened.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@TimothyStinson Man received a rational soul at the moment God breathed it into him. It is up to God whether or not He bestows it elsewhere. Gorillas do, in fact, reason, invent tools, have affection for one another and sacrifice themselves for their offspring.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@TimothyStinson One should not tnk that sch abilities are limited to humans. We are different from other animals only because God differentiated us and breathd into us the Spirit, giving us not simply a "rational" soul, but a personhood capable of immortality by grace.

[jubik10]

@allsaintsmonastery I agree with Timothy

[allsaintsmonastery]

@jubik10 I do think that you both need to reexamine the question in a broader context. There is not question about the fact that God is our creator, and that life depends upon the will of God. However, one should not narrow down one's understanding to the level that we think we can interpret God's mind, and paint ourselves into an intractable corner.

[marephrem]

Whether that is true or not, it matters not to the God of the Scriptures, namely because it has nothing to do with the purpose of the Scriptures. The Scriptures have little to do, if at all, with the sciences, but with that which directly relates to our salvation. The Creation account is in the formation of the Hebrew Myth expounding on religious truths.

[marephrem]

It is, as St. Jerome says, in the form of a popular Jewish fairy tale, and it teaches that the universe, and all that exists, was created ex-nihlo by the Logos (the Image and Reason of God) and in the Spirit of the Triune Self-Existent God (the Father). Both Master Origen and St. Augustine will agree with this view.

[OARHEGOS]

WONDERFUL topic father!!!

this is something we should discuss more often!!

god bless!!!

[minasoliman]

Your Eminence

I know thisis only part one,but I hope you touch upon the science of evolution sincethis is a hot topic for manyChristians,even Orthodox Christians. I personally am convinced of the science.One issue however relates to the origin of man. For evolution to be true, the first humans were not one man and one woman, but many men and women. So,I hope you can consider thispart of evolutionary theory and explain how this can be complementary to Orthodoxy.Thank you. Truly He is risen.