How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

Here is the reason why all of this matters: Genesis was written to the Israelites after they had lived in a land that worshiped many gods to remind them of who the one true God was—not to explain the science and details of creation. Genesis was written to tell the Israelites the story of the covenant he made with their forefather Abraham, not to explain when dinosaurs were around and how to view the fossil records.