Sawyer navigates this search for God well-acknowledging it as a single person’s journey, yet never forgetting the global repercussions. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?” Jericho knows no good answer. “There is no indisputable proof for the big bang,” Hollus told Jericho. In one of Hollus’ and Jericho’s early conversations, it is the alien’s turn to be surprised that a creator is not considered scientific fact here. Often it is a personal matter and one supposedly confined to the realm of religion and opinion. The question of God’s existence is hardly a given in science. Jericho faces his own beliefs about God as his interactions with Hollus deepen and he comes to terms with his own mortality. He soon learns from the Forhilnors and the Wreeds (of a planet in the constellation Pavo) that all their races had developed-evolved-simultaneously, and that crucial cataclysmic events intervened in their history at the same times. Now the atheistic Jericho is forced to confront arguments for an intelligent designer of the universe from not just one, but two other species more scientifically advanced than humans. He is used to hearing it from other humans. What startles him more is the alien’s research goal: to find God. Thomas Jericho meets Hollus, a Forhilnor from a planet in the constellation Hydrus, he is surprised to learn that the alien is also a scientist here for research. Sawyer (of “FlashForward” fame), a Canadian paleontologist is surprised to find he is the first human being asked for by the first extraterrestrial who visits Earth.

In “Calculating God”, authored by science fiction writer Robert J. Would we treat the truth differently depending on who tells it?

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