Book description
The description of creation as it appears in the Bible makes no
sense. The first page of Genesis features no humans at all. The
substance of heaven and earth arise spontaneously at God's command.
Light is mentioned twice, whales appear before birds. Vegetation
appears after light, but before day is separated from night.
Could it be, however, that the creation story in Genesis was written
as it was because that is in fact the correct order of events at the
beginning of the world? Can science - while agreeing with Darwinian
evolution, the big bang theory and the complexity and deep age of the
universe - prove the order of events as described in the Bible to be true?
In The Genesis Enigma, respected scientist Andrew Parker
brings the latest discoveries to bear on this controversial and
contentious question and reveals in stunning detail how the world and
all of the life on it came into being.
Andrew Parker
is a Honorary Research Fellow of Green Templeton College at Oxford
University. He is a Research Leader at the Natural History Museum, and a
Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has written two previous
books,
In The Blink of an Eye
and
Seven Deadly Colours
.
