See if it goes into what is known as The Gap Theory - the hypothesis that there was a great cataclysmic event between Genesis verse 1 and verse 2. That verse 2 forward is actually describing, not a Six Day Creation, but a Six Day Restoration.
One of its arguments, for example, being these verses' use of the word re-plenish (or restore)...
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
The Gap Theory supposedly explains an Earth much older than the ten thousand year old or so, Six Day Creation.
In other words, as in the Hebrew text, Genesis 1:2's "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." is understood as "BECAME without form, or void."
In short, it can't hurt to read sources you might, or might not agree with.
For even when you end up not agreeing with a thing, you are at least aware of it, and...you can often learn some things often of great use to what you do agree with.
Because as you are sitting there reading, things pop up that result in better clarity on your own position consciously but that you had not even thought on until the very moment you were sitting there reading about them from a different point of view.
Happens to me all the time.
In fact, I know plenty of people who discourage even bothering with an opposing view.
That is their loss. I once found myself with greater clarity consciously on some things in the NT, while discussing the OT, with a Jewish Rabbi, who did not believe in the NT.
Because things came up during that discussion that reminded me of things in the NT that I had been pondering, at some earlier point, many months earlier, before I'd ever met that Rabbi.
Because that is how intuition works.
Where you put things together at an unconscious level (like how you just know that someone is lying to you, but you don't know how you know) - things you are later aware of only as you happen to think on them while reading either an agreeing, or an opposing view.
I'd say read that book. It can't hurt.
Just keep Isaiah 8:20 in mind, throughout, and you'll be fine.
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