by Kevin W. Smith

PHOENIX, Az. (USA) - International radio talk show host, Kevin W. Smith, is preparing to release his new book, Gods in the Garden, a no nonsense exploration of human origins as presented by a very ancient text--Genesis. But this is not your grandmother's Sunday school lesson. This book not only rock religionists' boats, it sinks them.

Smith is no stranger to controversy. He has set off more than one firestorm of debate in the six years he has hosted the Kevin Smith Show. He has varoiusly been praised as a crusader for truth, and scorned as a child of Satan by listeners who either agree or disagree with him. Gods in the Garden, Kevin's new book, takes on the topic of human origins from the perpective of Genesis. "This is definitely not what you were taught in church," says Kevin. "Most Bible wavers believe what their clergy tell them, and that is way off base from what Genesis says."

Gods in the Garden simply takes a look at the actual words of Genesis. Smith says that this is a rather rare approach. Most people, he says, are so drugged by doctrines and theology that they can hardly even see the words of Genesis. "But if you can take off the theological sunshades, what you will read in Genesis is more fantastic than any sci-fi movie," he says.

According to Smith, the church story of Creation is centered around explaining the origins of mankind, and explaining our purpose for existing. "Haven't you ever wondered why the church keeps losing all its debates with science right here in America where some 80% of the country claims to be Christian", he asks. "Perhaps it is because the story they tell is absolute fiction. People can see that, and they reject it."

Smith's basic premise is that if Genesis is true, the church story of mankind's origin is fiction. He further states that if the church story of our origin is fiction, all other theology is fiction. Why? "Because theology is the study of God in his relationships with all he created." If you assert that God created man, then ficitonalize the creation story, you have created a fictional God, and a man with fictional relationships.

Is Gods in the Garden an attack upon Christianity? "Only to the extent that Genesis is," says Smith. "Genesis uses words, and those words have definitions. If the Bible is the word of God, as Christians say it is, then it cannot have been written in some kind of Holy writ that only professional religionists can decipher. Anyone can read what it says. And what it says is vastly different from what the religionists say it means. If anything, it is the professional religionists that are attacking the Bible they claim to believe!"

Slated for publication within the next month, Gods in the Garden is the first in a series of three books Smith plans to publish. He says that when he began to research the actual words of the Genesis, he was astounded by its phenomenal story or human origins. He said it reads better than any Star Wars script--and it does not say what you have been told it says.

Smith's hard hitting, no nonsense approach to controversial topics on his talk show carries over into his writing style. Gods in the Garden is destined to set off controversy, but it will be very difficult to refute its claims. Why? It claims only what Genesis says.

What others say...

Kevin takes us on a glimpse into a perspective that will not only create the thought provoking movement within you, it will allow you to be in the drivers seat to make your own decisions in this line of thought.

--Robbie Thomas
Author/Spiritualist

Wow!
All throughout the book the way you use the scripture and explain it makes so much sense. It's mind boggling...to say the least. Everything we have been told by the church is nowhere close. It really makes you question what you have been taught to believe, and want to know more....if you beleve what Genesis truely says you can't believe what you have been taught by the church. Chapters 10 and 11 are so well written to address where we came from..Now where are we going...?

--Linda Nelson
Author

I read the manuscript last night and could not put it down ! It is very riveting and could be a best seller akin to the Da Vinci Code.

--S. Abrams
Reviewer

I just wanted to touch base with you. I am intently reading Chapter 5 of your book which requires more research on my part than I expected. You asked me to parse thought and I take this very seriously. In other words, this requires more research on my part than expected, not that you are entirely wrong, for I knew much of this to begin with, but proving it is another matter entirely. This is a good exercise of my own faith and I sincerely thank-you and the powers that be for giving me the opportunity to do it.

--B. Klashka
Reviewer

No question about it. This is hot. I've never read anything like it before, and it kept me on the edge of my seat wanting more.

--Al Lavigne
Producer

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