Rather than simply rejecting the creationmyth on rationalist grounds, he finds in it symbols and metaphors which reveal how much surprising continuity there has been in human thinking about our origins.
You'll read about the Santa Cruz fishermen who caught Dave's Fancy Chinook King Salmon by hook and line, the family farm that grew the ingredients in the Lundberg honey nut rice cakes and the creationmyth behind Honest Tea's tea bags.
Henry Kissinger prevented Israel from destroying Egypt's Third Army, allowed the Egyptians to escape with honor and thus enabled the creation of the current Egyptian myth - that Israel lost that war.
Mr Fingeroth, author of the upcoming Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics and the Creation of the Superhero, admits the Superman myth has "echoes of religious lore".