In the Beginning: From Adam & Eve to Intelligent Design

Genesis is the first book of the Bible and it starts at the beginning, with the creation of the universe in six days. But other well-known Bible stories are also discussed: Cain and Abel, the Tower of Babel, the Flood, Abraham, Joseph in Egypt. As the first book in the series of Holy Books of the Jews and later of the Christians, it could well be the most important book of all time. At the same time, it has been read in ever-changing ways for twenty-five centuries. And even today there are people who find the stories in this book about creation more convincing than what science has to tell us about the origin of life. In the beginning was the word? Geert Lernout separates fact from fiction and investigates why mankind keeps coming up with new interpretations of the creation story.