This book was a disappointment. The author, like so many other Catholic authors addressing the interpretation of Genesis, makes the fundamental exegetical error of accepting uncritically the Darwinian hypothesis of an old earth. While Father's arguments in favor of a literal interpretation of many of the histiorical events chronicled in Genesis, including the historical reality and necessity of Adam and Eve as our first parents, the Flood etc, are laudable and much needed in light of today's hyper-Darwinian dogmatism, it would have been a pleasant surprise to read Father's analysis of the age of the earth in light of hsitorical teaching of the Church and the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, who almost universally held to a very young age of the earth prior to the advent of the false theory of evolution.