The new book by an Orthodox priest with an engineering and physics education is the first textbook in Russian pedagogical practice, forming a holistic worldview based on scientific achievements of recent years that are still little known to a wide range of readers, allowing one to comprehend the revelation of the Holy Scriptures without traditional stretches and clumsy allegories, which have long become familiar in many apologetic and pseudo-apologetic works. The book will be useful to high school students, students, teachers and anyone interested in the natural sciences. Two textbooks for students prepared by Father Timofey that preceded this publication - “The Science of the Creation of the World” (Moscow, 1996) and “Evolution or Decay” (Moscow, 1997) - aroused many responses from Orthodox teachers and were highly praised by prominent scientists -physicists. Note from the document editor. This book contains illustrations, tables and formulas. They are maximally adapted for reading on a PDA with a resolution of 320x240. Settings that are optimal for reading: font size 12, not bold, PDA orientation is vertical. Formula alignment is done using the tag, so I recommend making not bold. Some drawings and diagrams are rotated 90°, this is done to increase readability. This book is a participant in the "Corrected" project. If you would like to report errors, typos or other shortcomings of this book, you can do so at: