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Creation, Faith, and Science

by Theodore Feldman

To take an aspirin for a headache, and then to repudiate Darwinian evolution, is hypocrisy. For aspirin’s work in our bodies, and the biochemistry of the willow tree from which it is derived, are inextricably bound to evolution. To drive a car and repudiate evolution is hypocrisy. For the car consumes fossil fuel, the knowledge, extraction, and use of which are, again, bound to evolution, which explains the formation of petroleum from ancient sea creatures. If we live in the modern world, enjoying the fruits of science, then we cannot reject its theories.

Theodore Feldman

Protodeacon Theodore Feldman (Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, Boston) holds a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley.  After teaching history and history of science for many years, he left academia and currently works as a database administrator for an insurance company near Providence, Rhode Island.

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