Modern science was born [in the Renaissance] out of the experiments of the Platonic alchemists, the astrologers and magicians. The underlying spirit of the new scientific worldview was the spirit of Faustianism, the spirit of magic, which is retained as a definite undertone of contemporary science. The discovery, in fact, of atomic energy would have delighted the Renaissance alchemists very much: they were looking for just such power. The aim of modern science is power over nature. Descartes, who formulated the mechanistic scientific worldview, said that man was to become ‘the master and possessor of nature.’ It should be noted that this is a religious faith, which takes the place of Christian faith.

-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course, Lesson 3 “Renaissance”

Fr. Seraphim Rose's excellent book on Genesis, Creation, and Early Man:

We fully agree with Alexey that “evolution is one of the most dangerous concepts that faces the Orthodox Christian today”— perhaps it is the very key (intellectual) to the assault upon the Church, to the very “philosophy” (and there is such a thing!) of the coming Antichrist. If we understand [Father Neketas] and Father Ephraim aright, you regard it as merely an “idea” which one can take or leave, and which can involve one in endless modernist-fundamentalist discussions which are totally pointless (how many “hours” in the first “seven days”? etc.). We certainly agree on the pointlessness of such discussions, but now the issue is much deeper than that; “evolution” is a whole mind-set that is quite incompatible with Orthodoxy.

-Fr. Seraphim Rose, letter dated April 5/18, 1973

Icon: the scroll reads in Romanian: “Evolutionism is the key to the philosophy of Antichrist”

Creation of the Sun on the 4th Day

"Before the light of the sun shall appear, let the green herb be born, let its light be prior to that of the sun. Let the earth germinate before its receives the fostering care of the sun, lest there be an occasion for human error to grow. Let everyone be informed that the sun is not the author of vegetation... The sun is younger than the green shoot, younger than the green plant!"

— St. Ambrose of Milan (+397)

[Hexameron. Homily V. Chapter VI. Section XXVII.]
https://tinyurl.com/Ambrose-Hexameron

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https://genesis.blessedseraphim.com/