Ransom W. Stephens, Ph.D.

The Future of Science in Literature

The story of an engineer caught between Christian fundamentalists and particle physicists in a battle over the origin of the universe and the existence of the soul

Ryan McNear holds a patent on the soul. His marriage fails, he gets laid off, can’t make child-support and ends up a deadbeat-dad with a meth problem. He moves across the country to rebuild his life where he faces a choice between money and morality. His prayers are answered, but not the way he wants.

Emily Nutter is a professor of particle physics with a deep respect for empirical truth and little patience for the supernatural. She leads the scientific establishment in debunking the cynicism of an oil company that's arming both sides of a culture war.

Foster Reed holds a patent on Creation. When he’s laid off, he goes back to school and is awarded a Ph.D. in physics by a fundamentalist Christian university. His thesis describes the loophole in quantum physics that he believes God used to create the universe.

Katarina Ariadne is a screwed up adolescent and a mathematical genius who figures out what the eternal soul really is.

The God Patent is set in the culture war between science and fundamental Christianity. Combining a love story with religion, politics, and an enlightening dose of science – readers of The God Patent will walk away with a conceptual understanding of quantum electrodynamics and an idea of how the soul might be immortal.

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