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Article: Do-it-yourself Genesis.(new books on Bible)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
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NEARLY a century and a half after Darwin published The Origin of Species and three-quarters of a century after the Scopes trial, who would have predicted that anybody, except for the most hard-bitten of believers, would ever again open the Book of Genesis? Yet today, a TV star in its own right courtesy of Bill Moyers, Genesis is providing the raw material for a whole cottage industry of book-writing, the products ranging from the vulgar and trivial to the inventive and insightful. No fewer than seven books have appeared within a month, and many more are in the pipeline, to sate the public thirst for Scripture's account of the world's beginnings. So, do we now stand at the ...