Whether readers believe its records or not, the narratives in Genesis are magnificent literature, if nothing else, and it does speak solemnly and beautifully of the existence, character, and purposes of God. It is sad, however, that these writers and religionists refuse to take the Genesis record as it stands. How the first human beings rose above the animal level and entered the world of knowledge of good and evil. And so on. We can at least be thankful if this spate of books and television programs causes people to go back and read the actual book of Genesis itself.
Genesis can speak for itself, if it is read with an open heart and mind.
Serious readers will find they don't need Rabbi Kushner and other theological liberals to tell them what they think it means. The fact is that God Himself wrote it, using His chosen patriarchs to record it, and it means exactly what it says. All the other Bible writers, as well as Christ Himself, accepted it as true, literal history. But I doubt it. The government has itself indirectly been promoting the rejection of Genesis as the true account of origins by its ongoing funding of projects to support evolution.