Author:  Jonathan Kingsley

ISBN: 1932047980

The following review was contributed by:  Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews

Many people are looking for something "more" out of
life, like a closer relationship with God. The problem
is that they are reluctant to give up their belief in
the scientific view of things. They feel that a deeper
faith in God is supposed to equal acceptance of
creationism and rejection of evolution. This book
shows that there is a middle path, that faith in God
and evolution can go together.

Take Creation according to Genesis, for instance. The
earth was formed before the sun, moon and stars. From
a scientific standpoint, they should have been
combined in Day 1 (you can't have the earth without
the rest of the universe). Otherwise, Chapter 1 of
Genesis sounds a lot like evolution, as long as you
consider that a "day" could equal millions of years.

In Genesis 1:26, God says, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness." Whose image? Who is He
talking to? It suggests that there was a race of
beings in Heaven, before man was created. They were
the authors of Genesis. In Genesis 2, Adam and Eve
were created, and were told to stay away from the
fruit of the tree in the center of Eden. They didn't,
and the rest is history.

In Genesis 3, Eve is tempted by a serpent to eat of
the forbidden tree. The author's interpretation is
that this was not some sort of talking snake, but had
to do with the discovery of sex between Adam and Eve.
The author also feels that the two are part of a
designer race, who aren't supposed to sexually
reproduce. After the two have intercourse, and
discover that they are naked, God decrees that, from
now on, woman shall experience pain in childbirth, and
that man's days on earth shall be numbered (implying
that they weren't numbered before). After son Cain
kills son Abel, Cain moves away, and starts his own
family, eventually founding the city of Enoch. This
means that there were other people on earth, created
by evolution. The interbreeding of Divine Man and
Evolutionary Man (for lack of better terms) is what
causes God to create the Flood that, among other
things, made Noah famous.

This book is about more than just the Book of Genesis.
It does a fine job at showing a middle ground between
evolution and creationism. Mercifully, it is light on
the jargon, but it will still give the reader a mental
workout. For those looking for a closer relationship
with God, this is very much worth reading.