Man as Qualitatively Different from Animals
According to evolutionism, Adam was born of carnal intercourse of non-human creatures. This is a “son of God”?!
To reconcile evolution and Orthodox teaching, one must say either:
- The difference between man and beasts is quantitative rather than qualitative: one last little mutation produced man. This is repugnant to theology, which holds that the image of God is qualitatively different from beasts—no beast is “almost man.”
Or:
- Adam was born a beast, and became man only by a miracle of God’s “inbreathing.” This is repugnant to science, which seeks to explain everything by natural laws, and rejects miraculous explanations.