Calculating God - Robert J. Sawyer
An alien ship lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto carrying two species of intelligent life – the Forhilnors and the Wreeds. One of the Forhilnors, a six-legged creature named Hollus, enters the building and says, “Take me to a paleontologist.” Hollus is introduced to Thomas Jericho, a paleontologist who is terminally ill with lung cancer. Hollus’s race has discovered that their own planet, the Wreed’s planet, and earth have all experienced five cataclysmic events at about the same time. He assumes that God is directing the evolution of life on each planet for a common end. Through the study of earth’s fossil record, Hollus hopes to gain insight on why all three planets have experienced a similar history. Surprisingly, Thomas Jericho is more shocked about the aliens’ belief in God than in the aliens themselves. Hollus informs him that all aliens – and virtually all humans – believe in God and that it is earth’s scientists that are the anomaly. Click HERE for my extended analysis of this book!