“It is because they did not know how to say, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Fooled by their inherent atheism, they thought that nothing governed or ruled the universe, and that everything was given up to chance. To keep us from this error, the writer on creation, from the very first words, enlightens our understanding with the name of God: ‘In the beginning God created.’”

(St. Basil the Great, on the Greek philosopers  in the Hexameron,)