Hi, Walker.
Welcome to EvC!
I, like you, am a science fiction writer hoping to someday have a published product that successfully integrates plausible scientific ideas with an entertaining story.
Good luck to you!
swalker2001 writes:
The point of the book is that when the ToE goes away, all that is left is God.
Here, I must intercede: do not write this into your book!
It is completely untrue! God is not the only alternative to ToE. There are more than two teams in the league, so to say. There is always spontaneous generation, aliens, alternative modes of biotic modification over time, repeated panspermias, Earth is actually just the Matrix, etc.
I think there would definitely be thousands of people who would believe that God is all that is left after ToE dies, and that should be expected, but don't assume that the failure of ToE means scientists will have to suddenly take Genesis seriously. In order for that to occur, you need evidence that supports Genesis (i.e. evidence of a global Flood or actually finding the Tree of Knowledge, etc.), not evidence that undermines ToE.
But, by all means, write about the public controversies and fundamentalist backlash. Make your protagonist go through a crisis and question himself. But, please, science fiction does enough character assassination of scientists already, so don't turn it into another secular humanist conspiracy story. You don't seem to want to, but there's the danger that people will interpret it as such.
-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
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