In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis

Suddenly, it’s a live issue.

Christian fundamentalism against Darwinian evolution.

In the US the Creationists insist on the literal truth of the Bible and fight in the courts for the right to have their beliefs included in the school curriculum. In Britain the debate surfaces in the media and on television.

The two sides are locked in combat, each claiming a monopoly of the truth. But unfortunately the arguments of the scientists and the arguments of the theologians are all too often couched in such technical terms that only a specialist can understand what on earth they are talking about.

Now Isaac Asimov, the master of Science Fiction and also a scientist of note – a biochemist and former Associate Professor at Boston University School of Medicine – has written a fascinating comparison of the Book of Genesis with modern scientific theory. A plain man’s guide and a lucid examination of the arguments.