What Kind of Simple-Minded Fools Are We?

Must we have a naive immigrant psychology in the West?-Chanting in our services and reading in Scripture that the genealogy of mankind starts with Adam, “who was [the son] of God” (Luke 3:38), and believing “in actual fact” that there were countless ages of Neanderthas, Java Man, etc., before Adam? What kind of simple-minded fools are we not to see that if we are speechless before the “scientific” wisdom of this world, our view of man and creation makes no sense at all and is only some kind of fairy tale-in which all the Holy Fathers believed, but we know better! Thus, science teaches us our “Orthodox theology”—and we are so under the fascination of modern Western ideas that we fall for it!