 Claims that such notions can be justified from a ‘literal’ reading of Genesis are nonsensensical.This book has not one, but two ‘creation stories’.They differ widely in detail, are highly figurative, and were written to combat fatalistic Ancient Near East cosmogonies by stressing the underlying goodness of the world as a gift of God, not to comment on modern scientific matters" -- "Ekklesia, 25 September 2006."