The Genesis Enigma, by Andrew Parker; Vintage Books, 2009, 320 pages, $34.95.
This book was written by a research fellow who admits that the account of creation in Genesis is scientifically accurate and accords with everything currently known about astronomy, evolution, biology, zoology, and other non-religious disciplines. While this scripture-agreeing-with-science territory isn’t new, it’s new to Andrew Parker, who doesn’t have a religious background and isn’t a religious believer. He didn’t begin investigating the corroboration between scripture and science until his attention was drawn to it by readers of his previous book, In the Blink of an Eye, an exposition of his “light switch theory”, according to which the sudden introduction of vision on earth triggered the Cambrian explosion.
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