Genesis Enigma
Why the Bible is Scientifically Accurate

This is an interesting book, for on one hand Parker is saying the Genesis account is correct, but then on the other, he makes it clear that God could not have anything to do with any of it, for (Duh, its obvious) the universe created itself. So in other words, somehow or other the writer of Genesis......more

As a scientist I never paid much attention to the Book of Genesis, though I was more than aware of it from my catholic primary school education. As science became my religion through my teenage years and beyond I assumed, like most of my like-minded friends, that such primitive mythology which is be......more

So this is not a horrible book, but it is misleading. Loaded with empiricism--but from a philosophical perspective, not from scientific methodology...which sort of negates its purpose. Parker wrote the book as if he were just thinking out loud; this, too, detracted from the "Science Vibe". He does con......more

4.5 rounded up. Excellent overview of our current understanding of how the world was formed from a geological and biological standpoint. Good research on the Biblical text. Solid discussion of the "science vs. religion" debate; and he gives a very cogent (and unbiased) argument for why this doesn't......more