Darwinism in the Light of Orthodoxy: Cover Image

Darwinism in the Light of Orthodoxy:
Darwinism in the Light of Orthodoxy:

Scientific Transformism Based on Materialism and Naturalism

Author(s): Gheorghe Istodor
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, Religion and science
Published by: EDIS- Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina
Keywords: Darwin;transformism;random mutation;natural selection;theism;deism;agnosticism;materialism;atheism;

Summary/Abstract: Darwin and his transformism is the most serious challenge to the religious faith of the Church, initial being challenged the presence and God’s creative work in the living universe of the nature, and finally to challenge the existence of God as the Creator, being replaced by an eternal matters and by a blind and random natural process called natural selection. Darwinian theory proposes a dangerous road that starts from deism – with Anglican theistic accents – accepted in his time to an agnosticism and an atheism worst to strike materialism that have an ideological origins placing the foundations of ateization process of many generations starting with modernism, postmodernism and until today.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 80-82
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English