Publisher's Synopsis
Get your front row seat in a courtroom battle of ideologies between two powerful forces hellbent on determining the future of mankind. Set against the backdrop of the trials and tribulations of Professor Joe Colliver, a leading bio-engineer, and his tormented family, as their lives descend into physical and psychological turmoil.
Science offers humanity the holy grail of extended life and the promise of earthly immortality. While fanatical religious fundamentalists resort to violence, destruction and murder to protect God's divine plan of Creation.
The battle in the Supreme Court between the two opposing forces may be somewhat more civilized with its restraint of legal protocols, but it is no less confrontational as the renowned barristers and their leading witnesses of prominent scientists, atheists and Christian apologists are engaged in a take no prisoners clash between science's push for a brave new world, where man creates his own destiny and his own image, and the reactionary forces of religion still clinging to a superstitious past and the idea mankind must remain set forever in God's image.
The two opposing legal camps are headed by a renowned apologist as leading witness for the plaintiff, Dr Alan Roediger, facing off against an aggressive atheist barrister, Dr Vincent Bellchambers, as counsel for the respondent.
These two memorable characters engage in a titanic clash that is sure to polarize the reader's sympathies. The novel is full of memorable characters and dramatic events, with many unforeseeable twists and turns which will surely stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.
The backdrop story set in parallel with the court drama portrays the physical and psychological turmoil experienced by Dr Joe Colliver and his suicidal son, Ben. In their journey to save their family and their dreams they must first face their own personal demons and battle the ruthless forces out to destroy them and their vision for a better world.
This story is essentially the 21st century conclusion to last century's real life battle between evolution and religion featured in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee and dramatically depicted in the movie, "Inherit the Wind".
