Foundations

GENESIS FOR TODAY
By Andy McIntosh
Day One. 206 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 903087 15 5

Andy McIntosh is a scientist - a lecturer in Combustion Theory at Leeds University, and a believer in the literal Genesis account of creation in six days (and a young earth). In the opening chapters of this book, he shows that creationism is both reasonable and persuasive, and the attempts of modern scientists to suggest that 'the watch made itself' fly in the face of the evidence.

McIntosh also laments the efforts of Christian scholars (including evangelicals) to harmonise Genesis with evolution and dismiss the historicity of the creation account. He examines the creation story and shows it is to be read literally; other parts of Scripture clearly understand it as such. Genealogies are also to be read literally, and McIntosh suggests that none of this is contradicted by scientific evidence. In three appendices the scientific data is summarised, including the disciplines of astronomy (age of the stars), biochemistry, and the fossil record.