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The World Reacts To The Discovery Of
The God Gene!
Tom Oswald has just made the biggest scientific discovery since the double helix: a mysterious genetic code that holds the DNA programming for human spirituality. Its function? To create a unique chemistry that enhances our belief in something beyond reality, our fascination with the unknown, our appreciation of beauty, and our distinctively human sense of morality and love. How can he share this with a world already engulfed in unprecedented religious and political turmoil?
There’s little time for scientific accolades. Suddenly, foreign agents and organized crime are bent on stealing Oz’s bombshell data for their own purposes, putting Oz’s life — and those of his closest friends, Spencer and Katherine — in grave danger.
Equal parts Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, and Carlos Castaneda, The God Gene takes readers on a wild ride set amid cutting edge genetics research and industrial espionage, the Middle East and the Vatican, motorcycles and mysticism. Along the way, Oz and his friends collide with everyone from Mexican authorities to red-hat ladies, from unscrupulous thieves to a Mazateca Indian shaman who introduces yet another pathway to the gods.
As the mystery reaches a crescendo, kidnappers and extortionists force the threesome into a violent confrontation, with global consequences, where their destiny is finally fulfilled in an explosive finale.
This remarkable thriller imagines the possibilities and perils of our increasingly expansive knowledge of genetics. If a God Gene was actually discovered and its chemistry was mastered, how would the world’s great religions react? Could this knowledge be used as an approach to God — or would this discovery reduce religion to nothing more than a genetic characteristic? What would religious zealots, terrorist nations, and greedy pharmaceutical companies do with this knowledge?
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Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Black & White Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (May 11, 2010)
ISBN10: 1432753819
ISBN13: 9781432753818
Genre: FICTION / Action & Adventure
John Evans has been a biologist and a science educator in the Denver/Boulder area for more than thirty years. Currently living in rural Ouray County, Colorado, near Telluride, Mr. Evans has written this book as a quest to initiate important scientific and philosophical questions while entertaining readers with adventure and romance. 
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