Description

A laid-off engineer trying to rebuild his life gets caught between science and religion in a battle over the origin of the universe and the existence of the soul.

"The God Patent really drew me in, not just because of the hard-charging plot and the vivid characters but also because this story is wrapped around one of the central conflicts of our time: faith in science versus faith in religion. Ransom, to his credit, avoids easy or didactic answers. Instead he pulls readers into a dense and nuanced argument that leaves us buzzing with questions."
- Tamim Ansary, bestselling author of Destiny Disrupted and scribd pioneer with The Widow's Husband.

The memo said they’d get bonuses for submitting patents, so why not? Concealed in engineering jargon, Ryan submits a patent for the soul disguised as a software algorithm and Foster submits a mix of Creation and the Big Bang as a power generator. Two years later the economy collapses and both are laid off.

Ryan McNear loses his career and family to a tangle of misunderstandings and petty crimes. When the Constable shows up with an arrest warrant, Ryan flees Texas and lands in California’s wine country determined to reclaim his life and son.

After being laid off, Foster Reed goes to Evangelical Word University and discovers the loophole in quantum physics that he believes God used to create the universe. Funded by a military contractor, Foster builds a power generator that will link science and spirituality, proving the existence of God and the soul – if it works.

Dodge Nutter, conman, attorney and landlord of a Victorian mansion turned apartment complex, takes a percentage of Ryan’s patents in lieu of rent and devises a scheme to screw Foster out of some serious cash – the cash Ryan needs to see his son again. But convincing Ryan to betray his friend is harder than Dodge expects so he throws his sister, Emmy, into the fray and lets nature take its course.

Emmy Nutter, a passionate University of California physics professor (based on Emmy Nöther, the German Jew contemporary of Einstein), leads the scientific establishment in exposing Foster’s bogus science, but first she must teach Ryan enough physics for him to understand how the God Patent violates the laws of nature.

Katarina Ariadne is the screwed up, death-obsessed adolescent math prodigy next door.

The God Patent is not science fiction, it is suspense literature with authentic Brian Greene-style science.

Quantum physics and artificial intelligence collide with faith and free will, sex and drugs resulting in a description of the soul that requires, not a leap, but a mere step of faith.