The Genesis Enigma: Why the Bible is Scientifically Accurate

The first few chapters of this book ramble a lot, nearly hiding his main point in tangential facts. It is unclear what audience he is targeting. He goes through the Genesis creation account, saying that it accurate predicts what an ancient Hebrew could have never known about the current science of the earth's creation. (Though some of this seems rather forced.) At the same time, it also bashes creationism, saying that biological evidence clearly makes "creationism" impossible. These chapters seem to be about using the tale of Genesis to advance some of the author's pet evolutionary theories. (This is a nice twist on the apologist quest to use any science as 'proof' of a biblical theory.)

The appendix, is primarily a rehash of Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible?, which seems to be out of place (and clearly out of the author's domain of expertise.)

The saving grace of the book is the last chapter. This chapter takes on the creation / evolution debate itself. Instead of declaring one or the other the "winner", it acknowledges that there are things that we can't explain scientifically (and others that we may just not know how to measure.) Religion still provides explanations for areas that science cannot yet explain. Meanwhile, scientific explanation fits in brilliantly with a figurative explanation of scripture. Instead of being opposed, science and religion are great complements.