[[30]] Surely, there is not the slightest claim in Scripture that Moses or any other biblical writer received divine information concerning the beginnings of the universe; nor is there anything to support the assumption that the account of creation was supernaturally revealed to Adam, and that from him it was transmitted word for word through the families of the pious antediluvians, of Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc., until it was finally received and committed to writing by Moses.
[[31]] The Book of Genesis, p. 5.
[[32]] H. E. Ryle, The Early Narratives of Genesis, pp. 5, 6.
[[33]] Biblical Criticism and Modern Thought, p. 90.
[[34]] Astronomy in the Old Testament, p. 1.