THE GENESIS ENIGMA
Why the Bible is scientifically accurate
By Andrew Parker. Doubleday. 320 pages. £20.00
ISBN 978-0-385615204
The book blurb claims that contemporary science has an understanding of origins which corresponds in unerring detail with the creation account in Genesis. This certainly raises expectations, as the emphasis is rather different from much of what we hear today. So many Christians in science insist that the text tells us only why God created, whereas science tells us how.
However, the book chapters make it clear that these first impressions are misleading. The author’s approach to the Bible is indistinguishable from that of theological liberals. ‘General messages can be taken from the various fables . . . the precise wording of the text is irrelevant as long as its message gets through’ (pp.242-3).
