However, As The Eastern Churches Have Always

The Physical Fabric Of The World Had To Be Such As To Enable That Ten Billion Year Preliminary Evolution To Produce The Raw Materials Of Life. Without It There Would Not Have Been The Chemical Materials To Allow Life To Evolve Here On Earth.

After All, The Universe Required Ten Billion Years Of Evolution Before Life Was Even Possible; The Evolution Of The Stars And The Evolving Of New Chemical Elements In The Nuclear Furnaces Of The Stars Were Indispensable Prerequisites For The Generation Of Life.

Evolution, Of Course, Is Not Something That Simply Applies To Life Here On Earth; It Applies To The Whole Universe.

Of Course, Nobody Would Deny The Importance Of Human Beings For Theological Thinking, But The Time Span Of History That Theologians Think About Is A Few Thousand Years Of Human Culture Rather Than The Fifteen Billion Years Of The History Of The Universe.

People, And Especially Theologians, Should Try To Familiarize Themselves With Scientific Ideas. Of Course, Science Is Technical In Many Respects, But There Are Some Very Good Books That Try To Set Out Some Of The Conceptual Structure Of Science.