THE GENESIS 1 PREMISE

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

— Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician, 1642–1726

Part 1

What Is Genesis 1?

When people read the Bible, they typically begin with the first chapter from the book of Genesis; making its thirty-one verses the most read words in the history of all literature. The Bible (Greek for "the books") is a collection of the primary religious texts that comprise the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible. The ancient Hebrew Old Testament texts are known as the Torah, and the first five books of the Torah are referred to as the Pentateuch. Traditional religious belief teaches that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. According to the Bible, Moses was a Hebrew child who was raised by the Pharaohs daughter as an Egyptian prince, and later became a Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, and prophet. However, most modern biblical scholars doubt that he authored Genesis 1. Instead, they suspect that a group of Hebrew authors wrote the Pentateuch while they were in Babylonian captivity around 600 BC, and completed it by the start of the Persian Period around 400 BC.

The first book in the Bible is the Book of Genesis (Greek for "origins") and this book is the first component for the canonical scriptures of both Christianity and Judaism. The first chapter in the book of Genesis (Genesis 1) is the story of our origins — an ancient creation account of the earth, plants, animals, and humans. This story is told in thirty-one concise verses in what is known as the "creation story."

Part 2

The Premise

An unknown scribe, whom I refer to as the author, wrote the thirty-one verses of Genesis 1 over 2,500 years ago. In the following chapters of this book, I will reveal an ancient message that he embedded in these verses and which has been passed down to us to today. The significance of this message is so powerful that it will unquestionably challenge many of the modern theories of science, as well as long-held beliefs of many religious traditions. It answers two of the most fundamental questions people have ever asked. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Unbelievably, the author provided an elegantly scientific and chronologically accurate answer, but the underlying significance of this message has been lost in translation with the many biblical versions and translations that followed.

For the first time in history, and as impossible as it may seem, my investigation will offer compelling scientific evidence that the Genesis 1 author accurately summarized both the geology of the earth and the evolution of plants, animals and humans in thirty-one brief, precise verses. However, critical misinterpretations of his words have resulted in what many consider to be apparent inconsistencies of the creation events contrasted to current scientific knowledge of the earth's beginnings. This disparity has resulted in one of the root sources for the contentious divide between religion and science. It is this gulf that has caused the adversarial and conflicting positions that divide these two very influential groups.

Much of our scientific knowledge for the formation of the universe and the earth has been acquired only in recent times. Previous generations did not have this information, making it impossible to validate the scientific accuracy of the Genesis 1 verses until now. The science and precise chronology the author presented 2,500 hundred years ago can now be correlated to Earth's geology, the fossil record, and the numerous, archeological and historical discoveries. For the first time, this information will reconstruct an accurate scientific picture of Genesis 1 as no one has ever seen it before.

With that being said, then there is an obvious question. If this claim is true, then how did the author acquire this knowledge? As previously mentioned, many believe Moses authored the creation story, but the problem with this belief is that he could not have been there to witness the beginning of heaven and earth. Traditional religion has a simple explanation for this mystery. Many faiths teach that he wrote the Pentateuch including the thirty-one verses of Genesis 1 with divine inspiration from God; however, there could be another explanation. The author of Exodus 2:5-10 wrote that the Egyptian Pharaohs daughter raised Moses. Egyptologists tell us the 2,800 year-old Egyptian empire had a wide-ranging knowledge of the earth as seen by the technology, architecture, the sophisticated artifacts that have been found, and the wonders of the Great Pyramid of Giza. So is it also possible they also had a profound knowledge of the earth's beginnings? Could Egyptian scholars have taught Moses what they knew, and then corroborated with him to write the Genesis 1 verses? This book will offer some intriguing possibilities for the answers to these provocative questions.

Genesis 1 is the story of the creation of the earth and our beginnings. Earth is a unique planet, and as far as science knows there is none other like it, making it the perfect refuge for life — especially complex conscious life — to not only exist but to thrive. For this reason, scientists have nicknamed Earth the "Goldilocks planet," and there are eighteen separate and compelling reasons why it was given this description. In the following chapters we will explore each one of these eighteen conditions and the reasons why it was given this name, and reveal a statistically...