[115] methodological procedures, it becomes demonic^a, it destroys the autonomous service to truth, it destroys the honest mind of scientific research. In the moment in which SCIENCE^b derives (which is its justified right and its necessary service)--but in the moment in which it derives from this a criticism of the theological matrix, not realizing that ITS OWN matrix is ALSO theological, then science becomes destructive. And this is what we have to do whenever, in the future, new discussions between religion and science may arise. But Darwinism^c was not only in conflict with Christianity because of the confusion of these two levels--the dimension of ultimate concern and the dimension of scientific research--it was in conflict with Christianity because of the doctrine of man. The decisive moment in which divine creativity^d was important, for theological thinking, was the moment in which man-as-man was created. Now in the evolutionary theory there is a slow transition from animal forms to man as we know him, in the period which we call world-history. It is a very small period, in terms of the development of the universe. But it is characteristic that in the myth of most nations, and certainly also of Judaism and Christianity, this very small period was considered to be the ONLY period in which there WAS a creation. And therefore the Orthodox Jews, even today, calculate the duration of the world in something like five thousand years. Others give a little more margin for God's creativity and for world-history, but in any case, the fact that they CONSIDER that the only really important thing in the universe is the history of man, of which [history] Christ is the center, INDUCED them,