What Is So Special about My Book on Human Origins?

You may want to check out these sixteen topics most of which are covered rather uniquely in my book New Evidence for Two Human Origins: Discoveries That Reconcile the Bible and Science.¹

Most of this material is not found anywhere else to my knowledge.

1. From the life spans given in Genesis 5 and 11, this book provides mathematical evidence that the descendants of Adam and Eve married into an existing human race. A summary graph of these calculations may be seen by scrolling down this page of my own website.

2. It shows from archaeology why the biblical genealogies cannot be stretched to any great amount.

3. It explains from an analysis of the Hebrew wording of the account of the first day of creation that the creation days were not meant to be taken as solar days.

4. It proves syntactical evidence in the appendix that Genesis 2:4 must refer back to Genesis 1 rather than ahead to Genesis 2. And it explains why an accurate paraphrase of Genesis 2:4 would read like this: "These people who have been previously introduced are the descendants of the heavens and the earth when they, the heavens and the earth, were created, in the day when God was fashioning the world in which we live." The Bible explicitly states here that the pre-Adamites, whose creation is recorded in Genesis 1, were "the descendants of the heavens and the earth."

5. My book explains in detail how to interpret Genesis 6:1-4. It shows that the sons of God are the descendants of Adam and Eve and the daughters of men are the descendants of the race of men who descended from the heavens and the earth as stated in Genesis 2:4.

6. It explains in a unique way, from the text, why the book of Genesis should not be interpreted as stating that the flood was universal.

7. It shows why the author of Genesis ordered each of the aspects of creation as he did. They were not ordered entirely in chronological order.

8. It deals with New Testament passages that appear to be contradictory to my model. This includes one whole chapter on Romans 5:12, explaining why this verse does not teach that Adam was the first man on the earth.

9. In regards to Acts 17:26 and 1 Corinthians 11:8, it shows that the use of the Greek preposition ek is limited to the immediate parent when it refers to an ancestor.

10. It gathers data together to support that the whale evolved from a four-legged land animal.

11. It provides a study of the Hebrew word that has been wrongly translated “mist” in Genesis 2. It should have been translated “flow.”

12. It gives an outline of Genesis that shows Genesis 2:5-4:26 is the only portion of the book that is not covered by the label that includes the words “the generations of.” This was because Adam and Eve were not birthed as were the pre-Adamites. They were created directly out of the ground.

13. It notes that the only place in Genesis that uses the phrase "the book of the generations [better tr. "the book of the descendants"] (NASB) is in Genesis 5:1. This is most likely because the reference to "book" indicates completeness; this section of Genesis includes the pure descendants of Adam, but after Noah and the flood, the descendants of pure Adamic blood have vanished from the earth. Hence, the author is indicating the completeness of this section of Genesis by calling the generations of Adam a "book."

14. It deals with the origin of flood myths in regard to a local flood scenario.

15. It includes a discussion of the problem of evil with an attempt to throw more light upon this subject through a study of Romans 8-9.

16. The 2009 edition of this book includes an appendix that shows why the somewhat popular idea of divine accommodation is not supported by Scripture.
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¹Gary T. Mayer’s book New Evidence for Two Human Origins: Discoveries That Reconcile the Bible and Science (Bloomington, IN, Milton Keynes, UK: AuthorHouseTM, 2009). © 2009 Gary T. Mayer