Let us present the grounds that compel us to see in the teaching of evolutionism a dogmatic heresy.

The main dogmatic question is: Was Adam a historical figure?

The answer to this question depends on the whole of anthropology and Christology, the entire church teaching on salvation.

Let us explain our formulation of the question with a well-known example. In the 1920s and 1930s, Marxist science "proved" that the Lord Jesus Christ "did not exist" as a historical person. It was asserted that the Saviour was only a collective image, a mythologeme, a product of a synthesis of the beliefs of various Eastern cults, an invention of reactionary priesthood, etc. The expositions of numerous museums of atheism irrefutably "proved" such nonsense. Of the literary heroes, in particular, the characters of M.A. Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" (one of whom was beheaded, and the other ended up in a psychiatric hospital) are immortalized in this belief. Without wishing to retell the content of the vile books on this topic by the kryvelyevs and gubermans, we will evaluate this militant atheistic science. It should be clearly said that this science had as its goal conscious murder of God and Christicide.

Evolutionism in almost all its manifestations does something similar. Only he encroaches not on the Second Adam – Christ, but on the first-created Adam. He deprives Adam of the right to be a historical figure, to have his own biography, the genealogy of his descendants, his time of life, his personal responsibility for the deeds committed. Evolutionism kills Adam, smears him in the twilight of the "Paleolithic", drowns in the depths of millennia. Evolutionism teaches that Adam was not a primordial human person, but a certain emerging and progressing biological species with many transitional forms, and if Adam was an individual, then we cannot know anything about him. Discarding the biblical evidence, evolutionism finds it very difficult to speak of Adam as a real man. If scientific atheism is God-killing, then evolutionism is murderous.

If this archpriest is considered successful. Vsevolod Shpiller's definition of Christianity as "faith in God and faith in man", then evolutionism, which kills Adam, should speak more definitely, remembering the one who is "a murderer from time immemorial" (John 8:44).

Some evolutionists of the "Orthodox" or "teleological" persuasion may be ready to object that they had nothing to do with the spiritual murder of Adam, but recognize his creation as God, understanding God as the Lawgiver and Provider of the world and man. But such an understanding least of all corresponds to the Orthodox interpretation of the Book of Genesis.

The God of evolutionists is not the God of the Bible, but another God. He creates the world in a different sequence, at different times, by other means, and apparently with a different purpose. More precisely, it does not even "create", but controls the mechanism of evolution. Therefore, if the theory of evolution uses the term "Adam," it is by no means a biblical Adam. There is no single meaning of the term "Adam" in different evolutionary theories. Some understand a certain collective "Adam" smeared in several generations or tribes, others understand the aggregate "Adam" as an all-man, and still others accept Adam with the attributes of modern natural science theory, describe a different unbiblical Adam with different qualities.

The scientific-sounding reasoning of evolutionists is similar to the pseudoscientific concepts of "scientific atheists". They said of Christ, "There was some, of course, but not the one in whom Christians believe." These say of Adam, "God certainly made a beginning to the human race, but not the Adam described in the Bible and believed by creationists." Scientific atheism kills or replaces the historical Jesus Christ. Evolutionism kills or replaces Adam.

The Jews have two faults in relation to Jesus Christ. The first was the sin of Christicide, when they cried out before Pilate: "Take, take, crucify Him! (John 19:14). The second guilt of the Jews lies in no less murderous slander, when they persuaded the guards at the tomb of the Saviour for a bribe: "Saying, 'Cry out, as His disciples stole Him from us who sleep: And this word has rushed through the Jews even to this day' (Matt. 28:13,15). Evolutionists are trying to do exactly the same thing with the primordial Adam. They either kill him, saying that he "didn't exist," or steal him away when they substitute him, saying that "he was, but not the one." It is interesting to note that the Jews themselves considered the second sin to be more serious than the first. Let us remember that when they came to Pilate with a request to post at the tomb of the deceased Lord, they motivated their request as follows: "Let not His disciples come in the night, steal Him, and say to men, 'Rise from the dead, and the last flattery shall be more bitter than the first'" (Matt. 27:64). In the same way, it seems that the sin of evolutionists in relation to Adam can be appreciated.

The first-created Adam has very definite features that distinguish him from all fictional pseudo-Adams. Adam was created by God from the dust of the earth on the sixth day from the beginning of the universe. From Adam to Jesus Christ, the genealogy has exactly 77 generations. Incidentally, those who reject this historical fact, attested to in the Holy Scriptures. Not only do they encroach on the first two "obscure" chapters of the Book of Genesis, but they overthrow the Gospel, in particular Luke chapter 3, verses 23-38. The Biblical Adam was created of great age, did not survive the infant and infant state. He had no distant and close ancestors, neither a father nor a mother (which means he had neither a patronymic nor a navel). Adam lived 930 years. We do not know his biography in too much detail, but we know the main thing: the circumstances of the Fall and exile from the Garden of Eden.

The fact of the Fall, which consisted in eating the forbidden fruit, is for Adam a key act in his life, since it led to a qualitative change in nature and, as a result, to a change in the entire created world. Both the Bible and all the Holy Fathers perceive original sin as a personal and responsible act of Adam. Any other interpretation of the book of Genesis that does not point to the culprit, to a specific person responsible for the violation of God's commandment, any such interpretation makes God responsible for the evil, sin, and death that reign in this world. According to the Bible, God has nothing to do with sin, He only passes His judgment on the serpent, the wife, and Adam. A Christian cannot ascribe responsibility for sin to the All-Good Creator or to the nature created by Him.

This question of original sin, the sin of Adam, has an undeniably dogmatic significance. This is the central question of Orthodox theology. In fact, if according to the concept of evolutionism, a particular Adam did not sin, then Jesus of Nazareth can be called neither Savior nor Redeemer. There will be no one to save and bathe! Moreover, it will turn out that the Gospel name of Jesus Christ as the Son of Man - in Hebrew "ben ha-adam" - will become doubtful. By killing or substituting for the old Adam, evolutionists devalue Christ's sacrifice.

Proceeding from these dogmatic doctrinal propositions, an Orthodox Christian cannot share the murderous philosophy of evolutionism, but must, in accordance with the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, confess himself a creationist who believes in God, the Creator, the Creator of heaven and earth.