Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustration Acknowledgements ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. 1 Mesopotamian Origins 1
7. 2 The Genesis Story 11
8. 3 Hidden Meanings 23
9. 4 Filling Gaps 32
10. 5 A Ruined Earth 47
11. 6 Providential Comets 62
12. 7 Problematic Fossils 73
13. 8 Shifting Time-Scales 94
14. 9 Harmonizers 109
15. 10 Fundamentalists 121
16. 11 Hidden Meanings Again 130
17. Appendix 134
18. Notes 138
19. Index 151