num_pages: 234
description: Creation. The beginning of time. The origin of life. In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. One is the Biblical account, compiled more than two thousand years ago by Judean writers who based much of their thinking on the Babylonian astronomical lore of the day. The other is the account of modern science which, in the last century, has slowly built up a coherent picture of how it all began.In this line-by-line annotation of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, Isaac Asimov carefully and even-handedly compares the two accounts, pointing out where they are similar and where they are different.
language: English
title: In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis
titlecomplete: In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis
genres: Religion, Reference, Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Nonfiction, Mythology, History
ratings_count: 326
publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.