The Eye of God is an exploration that encourages readers to reconsider their understanding of reality, bridging the gap between science and religion. Why was this an important book for you to write?

For most of my life I had struggled trying to reconcile the teachings of religion with science and my understanding of the world. That all changed when it occurred to me that how science describes the force called Gravity corresponds to the way the greatest minds in philosophy and theism have described God for almost 2500 years. During all that time, great thinkers such as Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Avicenna, and Baruch Spinoza described what are called incommunicable attributes which God alone can possess. These incommunicable attributes include transcendent, omnipresent, simple, immaterial or not made of anything, eternal, unchanging or immutable, responsible for the creation of the universe or spacetime, and not being contingent or coming from something else. When I realized this is also how science describes the force called Gravity, I knew I had to get that into a book and get that non-personal universal truth out into the world. 

What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?

The main idea I just mentioned is that there cannot be two or more different things which possess these Incommunicable Attributes. By the very definition, Incommunicable, there can only be one. We have scientific evidence proving Gravity possessing these attributes. The law of identity, which is one of the three laws of logical thought, requires that each thing be identical to itself. So, if we prove through science that Gravity possesses these attributes, and then we say that God alone may possess them, logic then dictates that when we talk about God we are talking about Gravity and vice versa. Another important idea also involves a law of logical thought, the law of non-contradiction, and what are referred to as the communicable attributes of God, which are attributes that we all could possess. The law of non-contradiction states that things which are mutually exclusive cannot be true in the same way. There are many communicable attributes used to describe God, some of the most popular include loving, knowing, wrathful, jealous, and just. I propose that God cannot possess these attributes because doing so would make God patient, or dependent, on the actions of humans, which would violate the law of noncontradiction. God cannot possess these attributes which we all possess, as well as possess the incommunicable attributes which God alone possesses, because these different attributes contradict one another. God loving us, being angry with us, or showing us mercy would make God dependent on our actions for God’s own feelings. God would have to have a mind, which would need to retain thoughts, God would need emotions, God could no longer be immaterial, simple and without parts. God could no longer be immutable as all of this would require God change. Basically, I believe humans projected onto God what we know of ourselves. But instead, the truth is that God (Gravity) being transcendent, omnipresent, simple, immaterial, eternal, unchanging, noncontingent and responsible for the creation of the universe all means that God is nothing like humans or anything else in the universe. The final idea is that this new paradigm frees us from harmful religious dogma while reconciling spirituality, philosophy, logic and science, a project which was started in the Axial Age and carried on during The Enlightenment.

What experience in your life has had the biggest impact on your writing?

The Eye of God is first thing I have ever written. And the lack of sales has had the biggest impact on my writing. I imagined that if I produced a quality, thought-provoking, philosophical text, people would read and discuss it. Here at Literary Titan, you gave The Eye of God a 4-star review, which for my first book was very encouraging. Kirkus and Blue Ink gave me a good balanced review as well. Readers’ Favorite gave it 5 out 5 stars, OnlineBookClub 4 out of 5 stars, Outstanding Creator gave it 9.1+ out of 10. I sent almost 400 free ARCs to Philosophers, Theists, Scientists and Influencers. Only one college student influencer downloaded a copy and gave it 3 out of 5 stars on GoodReads. No one else has downloaded a free copy. I posted my Press Release to r/Philosophy on Reddit and a half dozen people immediately attacked The Eye of God based solely on the press release alone I suppose. Before I could even respond to all their assumptions, the post was frozen by the mods for breaking a rule that didn’t seem consistent with other posts which had basically done the same thing without issue. I spent a few hundred dollars on Ads with Reddit and Amazon which drove 400 – 500 people to my web site for a month. No one bought a book. Even though I read about countless number of similar experiences from so many authors while I was writing The Eye of God, I naively thought somehow that I would be different. I never asked “Why?” Why would someone spend money to buy my book and take the time to read it? People do not know who I am, and most already have their mind made up about God, one way or the other. It doesn’t matter how good my book is, unless of course a celebrity like Bill Gates puts it on their summer reading list. So, writing this book has made me into a writer. The Eye of God is not going to sell itself. I must build my brand, which means writing articles on platforms such as Medium, X and LinkedIn. No one gets to cut to the front of the line.

What is one thing that you hope readers take away from The Eye of God?

I hope readers realize this new paradigm frees us from prior superstitions and religious dogma. Of course, as I wrote in the book “This will require that we think for ourselves, and thinking is hard, but our ability to reason is one of our greatest attributes and key to our continued survival. Luckily, our success or failure is not in the hands of some wrathful deity whom we could anger, or who could destroy us on a whim. Our fate is in our own hands, the fate of the planet itself is in our hands. This is a tremendous responsibility, and nothing should be taken more seriously now.”

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