GOD's DEBRIS- Book review

A 132 page thought experiment, "GOD'S DEBRIS" is no Scott Adams usual Dilbert comic series. It's a thought provoking master piece creating illusion in the name of illusion. It’s for readers' brain to comprehend such logic.

"WHY do you believe what you believe...?" is what the book is all about. It effectively takes hold of the question and spins it around some deceptively simple answers.

Don't think there is no premonition for the orthodox believers of GOD. Don't ever think this as a atheist's work either.

The Author introduces you to the book with some flabbergasting lines.

"The target audience for God’s Debris is people who enjoy having their brains spun around inside their skulls"

He takes a precaution not to offend any.

"The story’s central character has a view about God that you’ve probably never heard before. If you think you would be offended by a fictional character’s untraditional view of God, please don’t read this"

By now you must have understood what the book is going to deal with?

Picking up the threads of popular science and philosophy, God's Debris gently weaves them into a captivating story.

A young man who delivers packages meets an old man in order to deliver one. The old man not just intelligent, an equal or more to Einstein in his perception stops him with a more highlighted question.“If you toss a coin a thousand times, how often will it come up heads?" and there starts the conversation in the form of questions and answers bounced back and forth with the reader listening.

The first half of the book is undoubtedly awesome. The old man consistently keeps your brain at work with some unconventional thinking and concept, especially when he questions God's omnipotence. Then he introduces you to a completely different perspective about God. He always intrigues you with such a challenging logic sometimes even questioning Einstein's and Newton's laws. He gives a feeling that he has got comparatively wider perception. If you're the kind of a person who finds novel reinterpretations of God's nature threatening, read no further. But his answers to life's big mysteries the nature of God, reality, free will, probability, science, creation & evolution and religion - all sound plausible.

BUT, But, but.....

Along the lines, something is wrong. There lies the author's challenge. Why the old man’s answers wrong? You will hear him say that when there's more than one possible answer, the simplest one is probably right. But how often have you actually found that to be true? If it isn't true - if the simplest answers are, quite simply, wrong - why? Questioning the free will of human, he gives you a free will to judge his answers by asking a question "why"?

Plus:

- The unconventional thought experiment.
- Interesting discussion about the theories of science.
- Tricky philosophical reasoning..

Minus:

- Few explanations are absurd.
- Not so interesting at the end.

My rating: 4.5/5

Written by: Bonzo
(bhanu_jovi@yahoo.co.in)