“If we ourselves think we can add something to the understanding of the text for our days (perhaps based on the findings of modern science), let it be done cautiously and with full respect for the integrity  the text of Genesis and the opinions of the Holy Fathers. And we should always be humble in this attempt—the science of our own days so has its failings and mistakes, and if we rely too much on it we may find ourselves with wrong understandings.”

(Fr Seraphim Rose+,  ‘Genesis, Creation and Early Man’)