Beyond Genesis

Book excerpt: Are we genetically linked to a REAL person named Adam? SUMMARY: Allen Epling, author of Beyond Genesis: The Untold Story of Man´s Origins, offers an alternative explanation for the origin of man that is unique and different from the usual Creationism versus Evolution debate. This book is not just a book of "explanations" of single events based on science, but the COMPLETE, credible, story of man from the beginning. Unlike other books on the subject of Genesis that attempt to explain individual events with science, this book pulls the whole story together into a narrative that flows seamlessly from the creation through the flood, and beyond, while maintaining scientific credibility. By proving that we have a GENETIC signature that goes back to biblical times, it reveals a PLAN of God not seen before, through new insights which uncover what really happened in Genesis, a story that has previously gone unnoticed, and untold. The author presents timely new explanations for the "myths" of Genesis, based on recent scientific evidence. The theme throughout is that the book of Genesis is accurate historically, and that modern man is the result of a combination of BOTH the evolutionary processes, AND a unique, separate line of man, the one referred to in Genesis that descended from Adam. The book also reveals the ultimate "plan" for man and that it is not finished!! This book was written because of a belief that the book of Genesis has a historical basis and is significant in the history of man. However, the author doesn't fall into the trap of others who go against common beliefs of the scientific community, of completely repudiating data that is reliable and accepted, almost universally, by all scientists. The basic assumption in this work is that both the scientific community and the religious fundamentalists have misinterpreted the data, and the answer lies somewhere in between. The author attempts to show in this book that the stories of Genesis are based on truth and are believable if we make only a few adjustments to the translation and interpretation of the original Hebrew Bible. Anthropologists and historians universally agree that something extraordinary did happen between 2500 BC and 2000 BC that lifted man out of the Stone Age into civilization. Our systems of government, our written language, our way of building cities are all a result of that one giant leap from ignorance to enlightenment. Was that "technology explosion" so