IN response to JRS Haward The author uses science to inform his religion. A lot of us converts to orthodoxy who were influenced by Fr. Seraphim Rose use Orthodoxy to inform our science. In the book Genesis, Creation, and Early Man Fr. Seraphim speaks kindly of the certain scientific creationists. This to Mr Haywood is an unpardonable sin. Because some protestant fundamentalists believe in a young earth, apparently anyone who believes in a young earth is a protestant fundamentalist. Fr. Seraphim makes it hard to believe in old earth or evolution and be in harmony with the church fathers. I have never heard any good arguments that any church father or modern saint thinks the earth is old and request for that argument is is met with "you're a protestant fundamentalist." I am no scholar of the church fathers and not humble enough to repeat the claim of surpassing C.S. Lewis but I understand the until the "Enlightenment" pretty much every Christian thought the eart...
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