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Ape or Adam?: Our Roots According to the Book of Genesis

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Everyone should buy this book. It opened my eyes.

Mr Van Der Zee, no doubt has good intentions in his effort to reconcile his faith with the scientific theory of evolution. However he is neglecting the fact that the Bible is the inspired word of God, and consequently is unshakingly true. If one refuses to accept the historical person Adam, you have refuted all claims to original sin. If you deny original sin, you also deny the inherently evil nature of man after the fall, and also the need for any reconciliation between God and man. If you deny that Adam was an actual historical person, you automatically discredit the entire theology of the bible and of Christianity. You can't have it both ways. Evolution is based upon naturalistic presuppositions, and is an explaination of how matter could have created itself instead of relying upon a creator, God. I understand your desire to reconcile the Bible to a theory which has been given so much credit as fact, but if you believe that the Bible is true you cannot believe that macroevolution has occured as well. I reccomend that you study your Bible more closely and read "Understanding the Times" by David Noebel. It will help you discern what the differences are between the Christian Worldview and Naturalistic Secular Humanism, which relies upon evolution. Good luck!

This book is a book that I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone, scholar or not... Many people should read this small book. Jan de Koning, University of Toronto, Canad

I am a creationist and I agree whole heartedly with what my evolutionist brother above (Eric Laubergis) says in his review and I quote "It is also clear from entire context that Genesis is account on Earth and Human creation that cannot be interpretated otherwise than litteraly,so that theory about its symbolic meaning is of no use.After all,entire Bible,from authors perspective,could be considered as myth."

Jesus reffered to and beleived in the genesis creation so there can be no middle ground, black or white but no grey and any attempt to merge these opposing veiws is both A) a cop out and B) heretical

"William R. Van der Zee is one of the best religious writers around today. His biblical commentary is always incisive and pragmatic, bearing a remarkable relation to life as people know it. [...] If you suspect that you too might be Adam, read this book." Paul Matthew St. Pierre, in The BC Catholic

With all the respect towards this and other attempts to reconcile Creationism and Evolutionarism,a stage has been reached where such "Crusades" again international conspiracy on behalf of scientific community personified in hundreds of thousands paleontologists,anthropologists,archaeologists,experts in historical geology is to be considered as,I must say,assasination on everything achivied insofar in the process called "Tracing the roots of Mankind" plus a nice try to earn few bucks by exploiting the fact that even today ratio between Creationists and Darwinists is 9 to 1.Historicians,philologists and others has established that account in Genesis was popular story in ancient Middle East.It is also clear from entire context that Genesis is account on Earth and Human creation that cannot be interpretated otherwise than litteraly,so that theory about its symbolic meaning is of no use.After all,entire Bible,from authors perspective,could be considered as myth.About Bible itself: it was written within several millenia by dosens authors and hermenautic has revealed much inconsistencies and contradictions within-different descriptions of same events,both in regard to space and time and also qualitative features of events.Therefore,Bible should be left alone from such "alternative exegesis" and should be kept as what it realy is-valuable Historical source.Finnaly,few questions:to what Race belonged Adam and Eve-because it is written that they were created according to image of God?This could have a wide range of ethical immplications. Also,morphological changes in biological species has been attested under observation.There is enormous wealth of data:commparative anatomy,molecular genetics,fossils,etc.but if lot of people are choosing to ignore this than certainly somebody is going to pop-in with this kind of "shocking revelation",softened with some syncretical commpromise.