Is this a problem?

I have heard some Orthodox Christians say that the theory of the evolution of life on this planet is not incompatible with the Orthodox Christian Faith. They seem to base this accomodationist belief on St. Basil the Great's Hexameron, and the idea that the entire Old Testament is primarily about Jesus and that it is purely accidental that it talks about how things were made, what king stole who's wife, who rebuilt a wall, etc. They seem to hold that the Old Testament is only a mystery revealing Jesus.

So, I wonder what those Orthodox Christians who think the theories of biological evolution are compatible with our Faith think of this?

"When Christ died on the cross, He took upon Himself the sentence of sin, while being Himself totally sinless. By taking upon Himself the sentence of sin, which is death, He redeemed men from death. Thus, the idea of evolution over billions of years undermines not only the Patristic teaching of the creation and the first created world, but also the Orthodox understanding of redemption. It makes no sense to say that Christ died on the Cross to take away the sentence of sin, which is death, if you believe that the world is billions of years old. If the world is billions of years old and if the evolution of man from the swamp really occurred, there had to be millions of years of suffering, sickness death before man even came on the scene." (You can read the whole thing here)

Do they have a problem with that? If so, maybe they need to remember that the bread and wine that reveals Jesus to us, that become Jesus, never stop being bread and wine. Likewise, the Old Testament which reveal Jesus to us, never stops being historical and prophetic, and poetic. It is what it is but, in a way similar to the bread and wine on Sunday morning, becomes Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.