Genesis for Skeptics

Genesis has it all: sex, violence, contradictions, insults to women, absurdities, conflicts with science and history, you name it. Well, except for anything good, that is. God declared his creation to be "very good" in 1:31, but I can't find anything good in Genesis.

Be sure to check out:

• The two contradictory creation stories 1:1-2:3, 2:4-25

• God's clever, talking serpent 3:1

• God's curse of all women 3:16

• The "sons of God" copulated with the "daughters of men," and had sons who became "the mighty men of old, men of renown. 6:2-4

• "There were giants in the earth in those days. 6:4

• Noah, the just and righteous 7:1

• God's First Killing: God drowns everyone on earth (except Noah and his family) 7:4

• Noah, the drunk and naked 9:20-21

• The curse of Canaan 9:22-25

• God's Second Killing: Abraham's war to rescue Lot. 17:17

• Lot [the just and righteous (2 Peter 2:7-8)] offers his daughters to a crowd of angel rapers. 19:8

• God's Third Killing:
  "The LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire." 19:24

• God's 4th Killing:
  God turns Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. 19:26

• A drunken Lot impregnates his daughters. 19:30-36

• Abraham abandons his first son. 21:10-14

• God tells Abraham to kill his second son for a burnt offering. 22:2, 10

• Jacob goes in unto Leah by mistake. 29.25

• Rachel buys sex with mandrakes. 30:15-16

• Jacob sees God face to face and lives. 32:30

• God's 5th Killing:
  God kills Er for being wicked. 38:7

• God's 6th Killing:
  Onan spills his seed; God kills Onan. 38:9-10

• God's 7th Killing:
  God brought a seven year, "very grievous" famine on the whole earth for no apparent reason (except maybe to make Joseph wealthy). 41:25-54

• Judah impregnates his daughter in law. 38:16-18