Coils of the Serpent
Publisher: Infinity Pub; Infinity Pub.
Published: November 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780741442284
Subjects: Thrillers; Fiction
First sentence: On top of a small hill, a flashlight sliced an usteady cone of visibility from the night.
Description: When three friends, drawn together through a neighborhood book club, have a chance encounter with a mysterious old stranger to their town, they find themselves drawn into a strange web of scientific inquiry laced with fundamentalist religious beliefs. Prompted by the old man’s challenge, they begin a search for scientifically-based clues to DNA and the origins of life hidden in the oldest books of the Bible.

Coils of the Serpent is a scientific thriller that calls upon the reader to examine his or her deepest religious sympathies and human-kind’s boldest scientific inquiries.

Given that DNA is the most fundamental pattern of all life on earth, has this ever been described in ancient literature? Does the Bible describe DNA?