Calculating God

An advanced life form comes down to earth with scientific proof that God exists. He then asks to talk to a paleontologist to find out more about Earth's evolution. The scientist is an atheist, and have is having a hard time believing the alien, who also claims that other advanced races believe in the existence of an intelligent designer as well.

First off, its not the Christian God, and the belief in his existence has nothing to do with religion. It is presented as a fact that all the major arguments against the existence of a Creator have been throughly refuted by being more intelligent then us.

This is the science fiction leap. There is basically those that believe in God because of faith, and those that refute him because of science and/or reasoning. To believe in his existence as a scientific fact is unheard of.

The book does not present a deep philosophical discussion, but it is accurate and comprehensive enough. It goes something like “There is 4 irrefutable arguments against God's existence” and then one by one “yeah, but our advanced science proved them wrong”.

Some people might find this somewhat dismissive nature troublesome on the basis of logic, but as I said, I see this as the fiction part. What I didn't like about the book was that I hoped it would have more clever discussions, like say Asimov in some of his books. Also, the cancer angle bore no interest to me. As it stands, this book has more drama then the science fiction parts that I like. And the intellectual content is too shallow to keep me interested.