In The Beginning

The creation story of Genesis 1–2 is primarily a theological story, not a scientific one. The book seeks to answer the question, “Who created the world?” and not “How was everything created?” Winn Griffin illustrates this point when he states, “The beginning stories in Genesis were not written to handle the issues that were raised by twentieth and twenty-first-century science. It was told and written by an ancient to handle the issues of his own day. As an example, the ancient worldview belie...