Fr Seraphim Rose is wrong: a compendium of errors and an ongoing series.

Now, mind you, he's a nice guy, and he's right about a lot of things, but he's also horribly wrong about a lot of things, and you would do well to keep this in mind.

The first and most obvious is the creation of the world. The universe is 14 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Period. Complex organisms have been living and dying for several hundred million years. There really is no debate about this. However, his fanciful book on Genesis and creation would have you believe otherwise. Previous posts have more discussion of this. I have not read his book, so I cannot comment in specific detail on his errors.

Second, St Francis of Assisi is a pretty nice guy, too, and wholly undeserving of ham-fisted attacks. Prelest? Well, I never.

Finally, the fact he doesn't read Greek should be a big warning flag about any patristic reading he does. No Greek == not a theologian.

This will be an ongoing occasional series, though at times it will be more discursive. Part of the motivation is the dearth of sites that baldly state Fr Seraphim Rose is wrong.